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purplecthulhu at 12:10pm on 21/12/2023 under writing
purplecthulhu at 12:10pm on 21/12/2023 under writingThe pandemic has not been good for my writing - at least fiction writing. I have completed a couple of non-fiction projects during the pandemic, both related to Venus phosphine, and both leading to published paid for pieces, and of course I'm still writing scientific papers. But my fiction writing has suffered.
I completed one piece earlier this year (a slightly fantastical London story tied to London's history) which immediately bounced from Interzone, but that's about it in terms of new material for the last several years, though I have occasionally been editing older, unpublished pieces.
But today I've started something new, and trying to use a new style or story telling which I've often admired but never actually tried before. This is the Dos Pasos style used for example by Brunner and Haldeman that mixes conventional narrative with documentary notes, quotes, transcripts etc. to build the story and background.
No idea how this is going to go but it felt good to start exercising writer brain again.
I completed one piece earlier this year (a slightly fantastical London story tied to London's history) which immediately bounced from Interzone, but that's about it in terms of new material for the last several years, though I have occasionally been editing older, unpublished pieces.
But today I've started something new, and trying to use a new style or story telling which I've often admired but never actually tried before. This is the Dos Pasos style used for example by Brunner and Haldeman that mixes conventional narrative with documentary notes, quotes, transcripts etc. to build the story and background.
No idea how this is going to go but it felt good to start exercising writer brain again.
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The dos pasos of Watchmen was one of the things that made it quite so groundbreaking for a graphic novel.