Dog & Wolf Press
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Sideways fantasy and cozy horror from the hour between dog and wolf — when you can't tell the tame thing from the wild one. A press in the making; for now, notes from the workbench. Night is falling.
Just doing day job things over on LI and watching that platform descend into psychosis about an image of the acknowledgements page from Lucy Foley’s “The Hunting Party” in which she prominently thanks AI. She’s thanking her husband Alistair, aka A(lowercase L)l. THE ENGAGEMENT IS EARNEST.
Not actively calling out writers who are perpetually refining the way symbiotic organisms communicate over distance or create characters that read like a therapist’s transcript, but Hemingway might have some (few) words. More on getting to the slender, glistening bones of a world:
The bones of the world with Ernest Hemingway
On stripping away
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Hypothesis: Three cups of coffee is enough to make preparing a five-month-old for his first con and cosplay go smoothly. Data: The five-month-old was fine. I was not. Experiments are ongoing.
From Vonnegut in Player Piano: “And my husband says somebody's just got to be maladjusted, that somebody's got to be uncomfortable enough to wonder where people are, where they're going and why they're going there.” Maybe writing & reading are just finding the maladjustments that nestle together.
The empathy of writing with Kurt Vonnegut
On maladjustments finding each other
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You can’t scream (even affectionately) at the woman who wrote Goodnight, Moon or The Whispering Rabbit. But boy did Margaret Wise Brown need someone to tell her she was allowed to write what she wanted to write. (Or maybe not. She did publish 70+ books.)
Flannery O'Connor claimed she wrote to surprise herself (“line by line, at a snail’s pace”). But the same peacocks, the same absent fathers, the same valises kept showing up. The obsessions were the outline.
Desperately seeking an invite to Margaret Wise Brown’s Birdbrain Club. Entry requirements include “a high degree of forgetfulness, an intense curiosity, or, at the very least, a short attention span.” Check, check, check.
Re: Stephen King's advice on writing/rewriting, opening the door to your ideal reader (real or otherwise) is easier if they bring a dozen croissants.