Paperback Jack
Blog URL http://paperbackjack.net
Located Brighton, East Sussex United Kingdom
Tags Writing, Writer, Creativity, Fiction, Authorship, Arts, Novels, Poetry
Schemes and strategies for the modern writer
Latest Blog Posts
- The writer’s toolkit on Sep 7, 2009 in Resources chance creativity technology tools
All writer’s have tools. There’s the keyboard, the notebook, the ink gel pen — the bare essentials to get the job done. Many of us also use some kind of mood enhancement. I believe Stephen King used amphetamines for years. So did Muriel Spa...
- Found on Aug 10, 2009 in Resources chance collaboration content gleam
Your writing is like a museum of objects and experience. Dedicate yourself to the curation of the forgotten. Found materials take the blank page out of beginning. Work with driftwood and fossils, natural objects of texture and colour. But also work...
- Eat your own ears on Aug 7, 2009 in Games creativity gleam sense verse
Sometimes nonsense is enough. Or rhythm. The absurd image that tickles your imagination, makes your creative urge laugh. The name Eat Your Own Ears has all of these things and is pretty much a manifesto. It is something like a perfect sentence: illu...
- Critical conditions on Aug 7, 2009 in Tactics audience collaboration influence rules
Collaboration helps in unpredictable ways. Authors might have their name on the cover but they have collaborators too. Editors and readers, critics and influences. It’s a shame more of them don’t extend the habit. You’re a writer. Y...
- Bang the keys on Aug 4, 2009 in Resources discipline editorial guest tools
Oh hello! Quiet round here, isn’t it? Almost a shame to shatter the peace. I’d love to say I’ve been brow deep in manuscript, sweating a novel, but I haven’t. I’ve been eating cake, watching bad films and enjoying a sle...
- The story of the writer on May 23, 2009 in Games audience psychology rules
Writers tell stories about themselves too. Many would argue that query letters and other forms of self-presentation are harder than writing the damned novel in the first place. When I took careers sessions at my former university, I always encouraged...
- Objectivity on May 22, 2009 in Tactics content physical
When a gun appears at the start of a novel, we all know somebody’s going to use it. When Ibsen was writing, the gun was still rare enough to carry symbolic weight. He explicitly identifies Hedda Gabler with the pistol that eventually kills her...
