“My aphorism is ‘only begin.’ It’s hard to do if you have a job, but if you can find the time to write a number of days or nights a week, even if it’s just five hundred words – that process will help free up your subconscious. And that’s where so many good ideas come from, so many good characters, so many good connections between characters, so many great plot ideas. You’ve got to use your conscious mind to refine it all, but a lot of good material comes from the unconscious, and to engage the unconscious you have to write a number of times a week to get the sub-conscious stirred up. I’ve got this idea that all the great stories are in our subconscious somewhere and they’ll come out if only we give them a chance. Getting it published in the present climate is the heartbreak, but there’s always Amazon.” -Thomas Keneally from here.
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Gabbler Recommends: Saga Vol. 2
So, our favorite part of Saga Vol. 2 was the part where Alana tries to get her so-called “Work Friend” to read a novel so that they can both talk about it. Alana tries to sell the novel as: “They mostly just hang out and play board games, except sometimes they leave their apartment to eat…” As seen in exhibit A:
After work-friend’s resting bitch-face, this happened:
“I don’t know Alana. Sounds a little…boring.”
“It is! That’s kind of the point, I think!”
We need more novels that are a little boring. A little boring with a point.
Ugh, and please don’t comment on the crappy phone pics of the pages. They’re just there to give you a general idea. Don’t get your panties in a wad. We’re writers, not photographers. Geez.
See also: Chekov and the setting of simplicity.
For Mecca:
…And for those of you who stumble across this blog and haven’t read our book and are like “WHY THE HELL DOES THAT SAY MECCA?” Take a chill pill and let us assure you that Mecca is a character in our novel. We do not mean the Islamic pilgrimage site. Although, his name does mean that.