Bootleg Stories @ashermostbooks
A good story smuggles in a splash of one's life like a two-finger snort from a pocket flash. All stories are bootlegs from our own adventures. #BS asherblack.com Brooklyn, NY Joined December 2020-
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The goal in a chapter is to achieve an objective that could be analyzed as a battle plan but feels like the emerging intutition, action, and insight of the characters.
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“A poet’s work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.” – Salman Rushdie
“Fiction is about everything human and we are made out of dust, and if you scorn getting yourself dusty, then you shouldn’t try to write fiction.” (Flannery O’Connor)
“The only way to be truly collective”: to “reach the others, the artist goes into himself. Using reason, he deliberately enters the irrational.” – LeGuin
(Myth) is "a product of a basic human mode of apprehension". - LeGuin
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. - Aristotle
If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it. - Elmore Leonard
Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working. - Picasso
I only write subversive material on my typewriters. I write subversive material on everything, even bathroom mirrors, but on the typewriter, I only write subversive material.
Writing stories is an inherently cross-disciplinary discipline. - Asher's 875th Maxim
You see a guy doing something weird. Maybe he's writing a story.
Writers love words. Authors murder the ones that get in their way.
The community of the weird is vast. It's a product of our time that we are more disconnected than ever, despite the panacea of social media & cell phones. But if we're just talking about numbers, it's huge, if perhaps a bit smaller than the Rennaissance.
Writers aren't weird. Don't let anyone convince you you're weird. But I've never seen an author that wasn't weird, from Byron to Koontz. If you don't want to be weird, don't complete things. :)
When creating a story, the answer to the question: "What if?" or "Maybe..." is always YES. You can change your mind, but you don't know until you've entertained the wildest possibility, and usually it sticks.
We can all do a thing. It's the poetry that makes the difference.
There's such a rich tapestry of attraction when writing love between characters. Catalyst could be: admiration, protectiveness, physical, transgressive, exploration of the self, connection with something transcendent... there are so many options.
"O, what a world of profit and delight, Of power, of honour, of omnipotence, Is promised to the studious artisan!" - Marlowe
It's not unmerciful to ask ourselves: Staring at a blank page? Is our life a blank? Our mind? Our experiences? Authors contrive, but that much cannot be contrived. The truth is in us. Tell the truth.
It's worth pointing out that, to write about the 80s, we don't just use "80s music". People listened to Sinatra, funk, soul, jazz, and everything else from previous eras. 80s only would be a cliche.
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