Month: January 2012
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Post #29: Revising Blue Dot
Been spending my writing time the past two weeks beginning revisions on my new novel, Blue Dot, which I’ve been dubbing a horror/sci-fi mash-up. For the uninitiated, I wrote the first draft of Blue Dot in a month during National Novel Writing Month, in which participants take on the challenge…
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Post #28: Completion Issues
So I used to be the kind of person who labored through whatever he was reading, determined to reach the end. Finishing was important to me then. Cue the cute girl who changed my point of view merely by suggesting an alternative. Cute girls are good at changing lives without…
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Post #27: My Obsession With a Small, Be-Spectacled Man
There’s a small handful of artists with whom I’ve experienced what can only be described as an obsession, and I don’t use that term lightly. I’m serious. I was so head over heels for these people’s work that I probably should have been medicated, or sedated. They include, but…
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Post #26: “IF A GREAT MUSICIAN PLAYS GREAT MUSIC BUT NO ONE HEARS . . . WAS HE REALLY ANY GOOD?”
As someone who’s many times been walking through a subway station, been briefly inspired to pause at the quality of the busking musician I just walked past, wondering, how the hell could someone this good be playing for change?, this article was a revelatory gem. It’s about the violin virtuoso…
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Post #25: Circumstance
Ask 10 random people what “Setting” is and they’ll tell you something resembling the following: The Time and Place a story occurs. Not so fast. A third element of setting worth celebrating, though oft neglected, is that of Circumstance, which I humbly submit is actually its most interesting and durable attribute.…
Benjamin Roesch 