No Man With A Good Car Needs To Be Justified
I'm taking the leap from Facebook Palanhniuk fan to Cult membership.
I live in Portland, OR, and feel close to the Palahniuk pulse. Love to read Chuck.
My husband and I were planning to move to Panama, so I pretty much put my writing on hold for the past two years. Well, Panama didn't work out. I did however manage to put myself on a full blown writer's block vacation. Now I'm trying to wrap my head around staying in Portland, kick start the sleeping lump that was my imagination, and face the story demons strewn in piles around the house in various stages of composition, decomposition, and general disarray.
I've read some of Chuck's essays on writing and find them not only helpful, but clear, and free of any inflated attitude about himself. Word around town is he's a great guy. So, hey, why not join the Cult. What could go wrong?
Think I'll be spending some time just browsing the site for starters. Never been in an online writers' group. Been online with expat groups in Panama. Know how crazy that can get. Treading lightly.
(edited from original post. Note: no italics. Oops on that one. Point taken).
Always think it's weird when people start a sentence with an implied subject. don't know why. Just a quirk I have. Know it's probably grammatically correct, but still. Sounds a bit too much like hulk speak. Can't explain it. Going to the bathroom now. Welcome to the cult.
Welcome
Are you going to write all your posts in Italics, like you're having an aside with an unseen audience?
Yeah - I'm sorry I couldn't read that. Too much Italics.
But welcome anyway.
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“The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
or Rorshach. hrm.
I thought you were quoting something, but I guess not.
Welcome.
Thank god for the edit button
Amen to that.
I like this person. S/he likes O'Connor and is open to constructive criticism.
There is hope, but not for us.
Welcome to the Cult. Get ready for a bunch of shenanigans.
Also Portland To Panama? Seems like quite the leap.
As your attorney, my advise to you is to start drinking heavily(er).-Tuffy
Nah. I've got a globe right here. It's only a couple inches.
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Welcome and yes Shenanigans..
“The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
Fleeing the neo-cons,Bush Admin., and vague dread of a Cormac McCarthy future America. Became infested with Panamania. Bush, or post-Noriega? Panama's actually quite amazing. The Bushies kneecapped us in the end with the mortgage crisis and economic meltdown. Not rich. More poor now.
Be worth a trip if you were ever so inclined, especially for the 3 hr layover in Houston (Bush Int'l) airport with its every 3 minute looping loudspeaker announcing terminal orange alert.
You in Portland, OR? Or Portland, ME? I'm guessing OR.
Bracing for shennanigans.
Thx.
It's been mostly short stories, and a bit of memoir styled bits, on rare occasions. Topics vary: from a piece on San Francisco's underbelly in the '80s, involving euro-trash, sociopaths, and trust fund posers, pointlessly imploding; to a tale of a tiger, a sanctuary, an elderly Asian, a canned hunt procurer, and other nonsense; to an imbalanced executive secretary in a fortune 5 office, rapidly losing her last thread of sanity. Kinda whatever grabs my attention. Lots of work to do.
And you?
It's all an exercise.
hey there, welcome, how do ya do? what kind of stuff do you write?