Writing again?

[purplecthulhu]

The 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but that's about it in terms of new material for the last several years, though I have occasionally been editing older, unpublished pieces.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.

Comments

[a_cubed]

This is an interesting style. I've often mused about using a court transcript as a dos pasos mechanism. It would be particularly interesting tied to an unreliable narrator approach.
The dos pasos of Watchmen was one of the things that made it quite so groundbreaking for a graphic novel.