I've never been in a relationship, but when I finally am in one, I wouldn't give up writing at all, and if my girlfriend didn't allow me to pursue...
One tip I would give is that if you are writing from their perspective, or sometimes even in third person a la The Delivery Man, keep within the...
I tend to lean toward anti-heroes/amoral characters. Clay - Less Than Zero Patrick Bateman - American Psycho Winston - 1984 Alex Delarge - A...
I second Charles Bukowski. His poem "The Bluebird" is my favorite, and I have it framed on my desk. T.S. Eliot is my second favorite, if only for...
Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis. It captures my feeling of lost humanity, desensitization and was the book that inspired me to write the most....
Most ironic post I've seen in a long time.
The specific book he is referring to is The Rules of Attraction, by the way. I think switching between POVs can be easy if, as stated before,...
Hunter Thompson covered some great journalistic expeditions with great prose. His year with the Hell's Angels being one and the 1972 presidential...
Just finished Bret Easton Ellis's new book Imperial Bedrooms and it was nice to see him return to his old writing style. Then I finished Fear and...
If he is found to be in shock, I would suggest very minimalistic, almost whispered speech. Either that or he doesn't talk at all. I would think a...
I say write for yourself. I don't write for other people's reactions, but for personal therapy or understanding, to get something out that's in my...
A lot of Lovecraft fans. I'll have to check him out. My favorite short story right now is In the Islands by Bret Easton Ellis. Just reminds me a...
Maybe I just haven't given it a chance. I appreciate books with little to no real action, but I was just irritated by the milky prose for the most...
Though many people hold it as a classic, including my professor last summer, when we were assigned to read Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway I was...
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