I mean seriously, do you write in hopes of being published one day? (Not that folks who don’t publish are not writers.)
Do you care about your craft?
Tag: writing
I don’t want to offend anybody. It’s an inoffensive novel. It will not offend any reader anywhere. No bad words. Now that’s another thing. It could not be published as science fiction by Doubleday because it had four letter words in it. And their science fiction list does not allow four letter words in a book. There were too many of them to remove them. If there only had been a few, like in Deus Irae, which they bought from me and Roger Zelazny. There were only a few four letter words so they inked them out and then marketed it as science fiction. And I had never known this before. I didn’t know the distinction between science fiction and mainstream was the number of four letter words.
Philip K. Dick (via swimmingunder)
Gods & Heroes of my Writing Pantheon
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1. Saul Bellow
2. Kurt Vonnegut
3. Ray Bradbury
4. Marion Zimmer Bradley
5. Michael Moorcock
6. Joseph Campbell
7. Mark Twain
8. George Orwell
9. Richard Matheson
Gods & Heroes of my Writing Pantheon
1. F. Scott Fitzgerald
2. Chuck Palahniuk
3. Stephen King
4. H.P. Lovecraft
5. Edgar Allan Poe
6. Philip K. Dick
7. William Gibson
8. Neil Gaiman
9. Mary Doria Russell
Every writer is a magician. With a word I create.
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No, I’m not going to stop telling you about my new blog on writing
I just finished my second Philip K. Dick novel in less than a month. The guy’s writing blows me away. It’s hard to believe he did most of his work in the 1950s and 60s.
Also of note, something most critics have missed, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch* is in many ways, a story about two dueling magicians. An excellent examination of the kind of hubris and paranoia a magus can suffer when they feel beset by enemies.
*You think this obvious symbolism in the antagonist’s last name would be a clue.
