by Jack Remick | Oct 11, 2010 | poetics of prose, Seattle's Literary Community, Writing Craft, Writing Techniques, Writing Theory
Pamela Hobart Carter–writer, poet, playwright, actress, most organized person I’ve ever met–read a pre-pub release of Blood. She sent me this note just to make me feel good. Mitch is free! No more cage for him. I have never read a book remotely akin...
by Jack Remick | Oct 9, 2010 | Music of Writing, poetics of prose, Uncategorized, Writing Craft, Writing Techniques, Writing Theory
Can writers theorize about writing without dying? Or, is theory best left to philosophers leaving writing to the writers? In Degrée Zero de l’écriture, Roland Barthes breaks us up into two categories: Ecrivants—who write about things and whose language is the means to...
by Jack Remick | Oct 1, 2010 | Music of Writing, poetics of prose, Seattle's Literary Community, Writing Craft, Writing Techniques
From: Jack Remick] Sent: Friday, September 19, 2008 4:30 PM To: Vladimir Subject: cut to Vlado, Look at cut to as a technique you use to get control of a story. It’s not an end point. It’s a passing technique that, when you use it fast, gives you the story...
by Jack Remick | Sep 30, 2010 | Music of Writing, Natalie Goldberg, poetics of prose, Seattle's Literary Community, Writing Craft, Writing Techniques
Dal Jeanis in Dallas, TX has a blog called White Flow. He’s interested in the moment of release that Natalie Goldberg talks about in “Bones” and “Wild Mind”– Lose Control, Don’t Think. He found this in a piece I wrote on The...
by Jack Remick | Sep 29, 2010 | First Person Narrative, Music of Writing, Natalie Goldberg, poetics of prose, Seattle's Literary Community, Writing Craft, Writing Techniques
The Writer Continues his Conversation with Himself because no one is reading his Blog. 5-15-2008 Louisa’s Café Today I write about what I don’t know–The challenge of voice in a First Person Narrative. I have two problems: 1. The Voice of the Inner Story which is...
by Jack Remick | Sep 27, 2010 | Seattle's Literary Community, Writing Craft, Writing Techniques
5/08/2008 After rewriting the last three scenes for the fourth time. I find myself rewriting the same three scenes over and over. I’m looking for the deep place they hook to but I can’t find it. Scene One Is the Explanation where Mitch explains in detail to Squeaky...
