by Jack Remick | Mar 2, 2011 | book reviews, Seattle's Literary Community, Uncategorized, Writing Craft, Writing Techniques, Writing Theory
Now available at Elliott Bay. 3/06/2011 2:00 am Blood (Camel Press) is Seattle writer Jack Remick’s new novel, a taut, open-eyed story written by a one-time mercenary and hired killer doing prison time, due to soon be again free and on the street—a street that...
by Jack Remick | Mar 1, 2011 | Uncategorized
Check this out. Amos Lassen has developed a new site for book reviews. http://reviewsbyamoslassen.com/
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...
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...
