female characters interest me, and i find myself occasionaly stuck with an idea/narrator that i can't quite see as being male, BUT that's a lot of money for me. a couple people here are familiar with some of my work, and to those people, i ask: do i even need to bother?
jack: charles has been working as an editor, writer, and full time college student (all of them to varied degrees) for twelve years. he can spell almost anything, and can usually define something, even if ive never heard it before, by its use in a sentence, provided it was used correctly.
my girlfriend uses me as her spell check constantly. it's kind of annoying.
As much as I would love to get involved in a spelling contest with someone who's been an undergraduate for twelve years (couldn't resist!) and someone called "Jack" like in Fight Club (again!!!), I just want to say: Please, everyone, if you do sign up for a course on LitReactor, don't share the material. It's not fair to the instructors, to the organizers, and to the other people who paid.
I just want to say: Please, everyone, if you do sign up for a course on LitReactor, don't share the material. It's not fair to the instructors, to the organizers, and to the other people who paid.
- I agree Phil. I would want direct feedback and direct attention from the instructor. I'm trying to figure out a way to raise the money, but it's not looking too promising. All I can hope for at this point is that Ms. Faust comes back again for another intensive.
to chris?
i think all the contact with the velvet, coupled with the fact that chris admitted to having a creepy stalker chick, and the blatant ripoff of his book that came out on DVD a few years ago, have ruined him on the public.
and then you factor in that cage 'restructured' and was (i think) sued for not paying people, and that he was one of their top sellers, im just guessing here, but he's probably not in love with the publishing world right now either. besides, their mock-up covers (remember those) were ripoffs of other covers, one of them being a stephanie meyer book....
Actually Moon, I wrote him a dirty email once and he wrote me back and said I shit you not, "You got a purty mouth, boy. Sorry but I'm married." Greatest moment of my life. Is that creepy to admit?
Yeah but despite all that you would think he would want to make some extra cash teaching at least. Maybe if I cut his name in my arm and mail him my hair?
i have a friend who claims to have random contact with him, so i dont think he's dead, cause i trust this dude. i think he just needs some space.
and fuck, maybe GODSPEED has become to chris what CUT MAN has to katherine dunn. she's been on that book for something like eleven years.
There hasn't been a class offered that I haven't wanted to take really badly. This one, though, I'm really interested in the results from the graduates. Compelling female leads are just not prevelant enough in transgressive fiction (although they do exist). I can't wait to see some of the results hit the workshop.
howie, this is why im interested. most of the other classes, i have felt i could cobble together from other authors ive had the fortune to talk to about craft and editing and such, but ive never met anyone that talked to me about how to write good women (particularly, if i wasnt one)
