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...
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...
