by Jack Remick | Jul 1, 2012 | Music of Writing, poetics of prose, Writing Craft, Writing Techniques
The Jack Straw 50th Seattle, June 15th, 2012 7:00 AM A man turns a clarinet into a horn, a flute, a piccolo. He plays a Suite for Parts of the Clarinet. It is unlike anything I’ve heard before. I ask him if he invented this. “No,” he says. He takes no credit for...
by Jack Remick | Jun 13, 2012 | New Fiction, poetics of prose, Writing Craft, Writing Techniques, Writing Theory
Image by permission of Kevin Coyne © 2012 Cover design by M. Anne Sweet and Sabrina Sun From the Opening: © 2012 by Jack Remick The year the war ended, Gabriela led her sick Mother out of Tepeñixtlahuaca. The bones of the villagers still had meat on them then and the...
by Jack Remick | Jan 25, 2012 | Blood the Novel, Seattle's Literary Community, Writing Craft, Writing Techniques, Writing Theory
This technique is an example of how the writer can work out the full scene sequence for a novel based on a couple of treatments–either the Three Act Structure or the Mythic Journey Sequence. This sequence is based on the Three Act Structure. Cut To Sequence for...
by Jack Remick | Jan 17, 2012 | First Person Narrative, poetics of prose, Seattle's Literary Community, Writing Craft, Writing Techniques, Writing Theory
Writing about Writing—A useful technique for getting control of your story ©2012 by Jack Remick 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...
by Jack Remick | Dec 7, 2011 | Interviews and Readings, Natalie Goldberg, New Fiction, Writing Craft, Writing Techniques, Writing Theory
Deborah Allen, blogmaster at Writing While the Rice Boils has posted the first installment of an interview with me about my novels and my writing techniques. If you don’t know Deborah’s blog, you have to follow it. She brings a complete range of writers to...
by Jack Remick | Oct 27, 2011 | New Fiction, North Beach, poetics of prose, San Francisco, Seattle's Literary Community, The Beats, Writing Craft, Writing Techniques
I grew up in California’s Central Valley. The Valley was huge but stifling. If you climbed the town water tower one foggy night and the cops hauled you down, it made the local newspaper–“Boys Saved From Fall and Likely Death”. Your one goal was a...
