the plot is basically irrelevant here. it’s all about the scenery and the mind’s eye. it’s like watching a moving landscape from the interior of a car, it’s not the landscape that moves, it’s the car. here the novel doesn´t move, it’s the reader who has to make the text come to live (you could say that of almost every narrative, but here it is really the trick: it’s a marvel of a novel if you just let yourself be taken by the “landscape”, it is totally unremarkable if you look beyond that surface. It’s like the set of a movie, there’s nothing behind the façade). This is probably one of the reasons this reads as a script for a movie and it will probably make a visually stunning film. It also feels like the first instalment or a bigger an broader narrative. It’s also much more entertaining to hear Jon telling the novel than to read it.
STOP blinking "check print cartridge" light!!!!about 10 hours agofrom web
I feel like I'm doing the backstroke, australian crawl, butterfly and doggie paddle all at once. And still getting nowhere today.about 12 hours agofrom web
For the price of the damn ink, I should get a whole new printer!about 13 hours agofrom web
It was warm enough to power up the grill and toss on the season's first hot dogs. I slathered my two with mayo and piled on the kimchi!01:08:26 AM March 10, 2010from web
I'm now printing up a hundred pages of Yarn to send it to an undisclosed location! That is, if my ink supply lasts.07:58:58 PM March 09, 2010from web
I got another 100 pages of Yarn from the editor, but did not cruise thru them. I got stuck about ten pages in and had to add half a chapter.07:56:52 PM March 09, 2010from web
Whose are these crazy people bidding on the one golf club I want on eBay? Stop it!07:55:49 PM March 09, 2010from web
Damn, all I can remember now is that I thought of something really clever yesterday.09:03:45 PM March 08, 2010from web
That wasn't bad at all! I thought it was going to drive me completely crazy. I think I'll go write for thirty minutes!09:51:39 PM March 05, 2010from web
November 15th, 2007 at 1:12 pm
hey, thanks very much for podcasting your novel! I really enjoyed it and looking forward to your next publication.
April 6th, 2008 at 7:41 pm
hello, just wanted to say this page was posted at reddit, and when I clicked over, the first words I saw were:
“A year later, about to revenge his Father’s death, Michael arranges a secret meeting to see Nora again.”
…which, I dare say, is a bit of a spoiler, I would imagine. Just thought I’d say.
April 11th, 2008 at 10:13 am
the plot is basically irrelevant here. it’s all about the scenery and the mind’s eye. it’s like watching a moving landscape from the interior of a car, it’s not the landscape that moves, it’s the car. here the novel doesn´t move, it’s the reader who has to make the text come to live (you could say that of almost every narrative, but here it is really the trick: it’s a marvel of a novel if you just let yourself be taken by the “landscape”, it is totally unremarkable if you look beyond that surface. It’s like the set of a movie, there’s nothing behind the façade). This is probably one of the reasons this reads as a script for a movie and it will probably make a visually stunning film. It also feels like the first instalment or a bigger an broader narrative. It’s also much more entertaining to hear Jon telling the novel than to read it.
April 15th, 2008 at 8:55 am
hehe