by Jack Remick | Jan 7, 2011 | Accolades for the Author, book reviews, poetics of prose, Writing Craft
GunnShots: Winter 2011 by Wayne Gunn on January 6, 2011 · 0 comments in Features, Mystery, Reviews A Roundup of Gay Crime Writing This quarter the column features a masterful prison novel, two murder mysteries that follow unusual narrative patterns, a relatively...
by Jack Remick | Dec 13, 2010 | Accolades for the Author, Music of Writing, Writing Craft
This is the promo Dan Oles created and posted on...
by Jack Remick | Nov 7, 2010 | Accolades for the Author, poetics of prose, Writing Craft, Writing Techniques
This note is from a fellow writer I asked to read Blood– I had a few moments this morning to read; I loved the scene where Mitch’s sister, Gerry comes to see him. It resonated deeply with me for reasons I’ll tell you about sometime. I like that he...
by Jack Remick | Nov 3, 2010 | Music of Writing, poetics of prose, Writing Craft, Writing Techniques
Note: For the NaNoWriMo writers who find your way here, Bob Ray has posted a “Tips for Surviving NaNoWriMo” on Bob and Jack’s Writing Blog. Check it out.I get this question a lot when readers tear into one of my books. Blood, you can see, is built on...
by Jack Remick | Oct 19, 2010 | Music of Writing, Seattle's Literary Community, Writing Craft, Writing Techniques, Writing Theory
Okay. A couple of readers want to know what a plot track is and how it works. You can run a plot track on an object, a symbol, a character, an action. In the examples below, all from Blood, I run the plot track on knife with several transforms. I remembered the feel...
by Jack Remick | Oct 14, 2010 | Music of Writing, poetics of prose, Seattle's Literary Community, Writing Craft, Writing Techniques, Writing Theory
I first thought about the problem of memory and how we know what words mean a few years ago. In Blood, I decided to make memory a central plot track. So, as Mitch writes his story, The Patron Saint of Blood, he finds that his memory of past events fades. It turns out...
