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The Incredible Shrinking Writer

"To be small and to stay small."  -- motto of Robert Walser, creator of The Microscripts New discovery this morning:  Robert Walser, who was so fixated on writing small that he apparently began boiling the written word down into an "eccentric shorthand" -- a code of his own invention -- which compressed stories and poems down into very small scraps of paper and items like calendar pages and postcards. More art than prose, the Microscripts collection is available on Amazon.com Apparently he fit a complete novel, "The Robber," into 24 pages of paper -- which Benjamin Kunkel calls "a beautiful,…
August 19, 2011Posted inBlather
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Dark Promptings: Fear the Family with Michael Bracken

"Dark Promptings" is a special series of guest-written creative writing prompts, aimed at sparking the imagination's gasoline for writers from any genre...but with a dark or devious discoloration, just like the Instigation department at Gorelets.com. The guest contributors are folks who wrote articles appearing in my fat new non-fiction book for fiction writers of all kinds, Many Genres, One Craft: Lessons in Writing Popular Fiction, making a stop here at gorelets.com as part of their Virtual Book Tour across the web. (You can find my own VBT essays elsewhere). Writers and creative people: drop on by our book's meaty weblog…
August 14, 2011Posted inInstigation4 Comments
Posted inInstigation

Dark Promptings: Uncanny Surprises with Sally Bosco

"Dark Promptings" is a special series of guest-written creative writing prompts, aimed at sparking the imagination's gasoline for writers from any genre...but with a dark or devious discoloration, just like the Instigation department at Gorelets.com. The guest contributors are folks who wrote articles appearing in my fat new non-fiction book for fiction writers of all kinds, Many Genres, One Craft: Lessons in Writing Popular Fiction, making a stop here at gorelets.com as part of their Virtual Book Tour across the web. (You can find my own VBT essays elsewhere). Writers and creative people: drop on by our book's meaty weblog…
August 10, 2011Posted inInstigation6 Comments
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Dark Promptings: A Series of Story Starters from Authors in Many Genres, One Craft

"Dark Promptings" is a special series of guest-written creative writing prompts, aimed at sparking the imagination's gasoline for writers from any genre...but with a dark or devious discoloration, just like the Instigation department at Gorelets.com. The guest contributors are folks who wrote articles appearing in my fat new non-fiction book for fiction writers of all kinds, Many Genres, One Craft: Lessons in Writing Popular Fiction, making a stop on my weblog at gorelets.com as part of their Virtual Book Tour across the web. (You can find my own VBT essays elsewhere). Writers and creative people: drop on by our book's…
August 7, 2011Posted inData+Errata
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Dark Promptings: Alone in the Dark with Mary SanGiovanni

"Dark Promptings" is a special series of guest-written creative writing prompts, aimed at sparking the imagination's gasoline for writers from any genre...but with a dark or devious discoloration, just like the Instigation department at Gorelets.com. The guest contributors are folks who wrote articles appearing in my fat new non-fiction book for fiction writers of all kinds, Many Genres, One Craft: Lessons in Writing Popular Fiction, making a stop here at gorelets.com as part of their Virtual Book Tour across the web. (You can find my own VBT essays elsewhere). Writers and creative people: drop on by our book's meaty weblog…
August 7, 2011Posted inInstigation2 Comments