“The Things Between You And Her” – preparing an unsolicited submission this week…
Author: Jason
It is not down in any map; true places never are.
Herman Melville cf. [T]rap streets, or deliberate cartographic errors introduced into a map so as to catch acts of copyright infringement by rival firms. In other words, if a competitor’s map includes your “trap street” — a geographic feature that you’ve simply invented — then you (and your lawyers) will know they nicked your data, gave it a quick redesign and tried to pass it off as their own. But this strategy of willful cartographic deception is not always limited to streets: there can be trap parks, trap ponds, trap buildings. And trap rooms. …. These and other subtle geographies — trap architectures — awaiting detection all around us.
—Geoff Manaugh (via bobulate)
And The Novel Has A Name
Only took a conversation with Jac, but now the book has a name. Formatting and drafting a query for an unsolicited submission to go out next week. Aiming to query to agents by the end of November. Gonna make this happen.
The cat has had a long day
I don’t really write about anything I don’t love even if that love sometimes gets all screwed up and tormented.
Jonathan Lethem
Interesting approach to outlining.
A spreadsheet plot written out by J.K. Rowling. Her approach to spreadsheet plotting is to divide the columns by chapter number, story timeline, chapter title, main plots and subplots.
Bobulate: Margins
Scrapbooks make me nervous. Diaries, even more so. In a childhood bedroom in Scranton, still, piles of my unfinished diaries sit on a shelf. Unlocked — no need for security — blank pages. Empty. Started, never in earnest, the entries were more interesting as fancy penmanship practice rather than as content. Stories trailed off, while the cursive z’s in my name: perfection.
