Benjamin Roesch

Month: November 2011

  • Post #18: Finish Lines

    As I wrote my 50,000th word this month I was at a coffee shop alone.  I’d gone in a few thousand short of my goal, ordered coffee and a peanut butter cookie, then set to work, vowing not to leave until I’d finished.  I didn’t.  A thrill went through me…

  • Post #17: Crawling Through the Nearest Window

    Doing National Novel Writing Month is exhilarating.  I think this is mostly because I’ve never written, outside of education, for a capital “D” Deadline and the need to complete X quantity by Y date is a utilitarian sort of enterprise that’s added a different timbre to this writing experience than…

  • Post #16: Word Riot

    I have a flash fiction piece in the new issue of Word Riot (http://www.wordriot.org/archives/3353) entitled “On Knowing What I’m Doing.”  Many thanks to Kevin O’ Cuinn and Jackie Corley for featuring me along with so many great writers this month.  Special bonus is that you can read or listen to…

  • Post #15: The Sky Was Crying

    I have a piece about to come out in Word Riot (Nov. 15th issue) that features a narrator who spends a lot of money on a guitar that looks like one that used to belong to Stevie Ray Vaughan.  It’s not about Stevie Ray, per se, but his image and…

  • Post #14: There’s Always Time for Good News

    This message brought to you by the fact that even though I’m in the throes of writing a novel in a month and barely keeping up, some of my writing friends are publishing amazing work right now, not to mention being nominated for awards.  And there’s always time for good…

  • Post #13: Blue Dot

    Blue Dot is the presumptive title of the Sci-Fi/Horror novel I’ve started for National Novel Writing Month.  As a writer of mostly literary fiction, I decided if I was going to go for broke with nanowrimo and do a novel in a month, I might as well go all out…