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Vincent Louis Carrella's Blog
October 12, 2009
- The street was crowded with us. We, the workers, the commuters. We were on our way home from jobs. Home from jobs. I was among them. It was Friday, this past Friday, and the collective thought of us all was the Friday thought - a weekend. Home. A throng of us was approaching the corner of Battery and Bush when I saw a man who was upside-down. This didn't seem at all strange to me. The man was ...
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June 23, 2009
- It is not much for its beauty that makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanates from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit." Robert Louis Stevenson To be honest, to be kind, To earn a little, to spend a little less, To make upon the whole a family happier for his presence, To renounce ...
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May 6, 2009
- Twitter. What the heck is it? Why is everybody talking about it? And what can you do with it? Well writers, let me tell you, A LOT. I had the same questions about a month ago and decided to figure out not just what Twitter was to other people, but how I, a writer, could use it - not to promote myself, but to free myself. Twitter is a social networking tool, not unlike Facebook but ...
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May 5, 2009
- Last night, without warning or intention, I was transformed by a film. I mean utterly changed. I am still, 12 hours later, stunned. And it’s been so long since this has happened that I have forgotten that film is the most powerful medium of expression thus far invented by man. My body is affected. My mind is reeling with images, emotions. How do I even process such a thing? I write about it.I ...
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March 13, 2009
February 19, 2009
- In order to write truly, one must feel that he has lived before, a different life in a different world. You must feel it and believe it and make your reader believe it too. When you write, you follow images and feelings from your subconscious, and you sort through them, so quickly, so unconsciously, that the process can hardly be observed, and in your writing you record those relevant to your ...
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January 6, 2009
- So, I have been posting the letters I wrote during the writing of Serpent Box, not just for you dear reader, but for me as well. I want to learn what I learned during that time when I was working on what I hope will not be my last novel. As I post these, I am reading them for the first time. So we're discovering together. You hear writers talk about their process and what that is, is, how you ...
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December 10, 2008
- There is a quote attributed to Hemingway that I cannot verify, but it sounds like something he would believe, if not actually say and it goes something like this: "Some writers were born to help another write a single sentence." And it is true. As writers we not only help each other to write, but it is our solemn responsibility to do so. We stand on the shoulders of those who came ...
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October 10, 2008
- The thing is, you never do know where the road is going to take you. Our intended destinations rarely turn out to be our destiny’s true intent. What we need most to see, to hear, to feel in our hearts, is given to us. It is laid out at our feet, if you look for it. If you trust the road.I thought it was Litquake. This was Saturday October 4th. I believed I was coming into the City for ...
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August 22, 2008
- “[1] I celebrate myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you” There was a lake nearby where we took the canoe early that first morning about two hours after the passing of a storm in the night. The water was flat and clear as resin and we were the only anglers upon it, just my brother and myself, as we had done countless ...
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August 12, 2008
- “We all know we’re going to die; what’s important is the kind of men and women we are in the face of this.” Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird The thing was, I thought I might never write again. This was a month ago. I was all but defeated and I lost my faith, not because of the writer’s block or the endless rejections or because I was not published. I lost my heart because I was ...
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July 17, 2008
- A pen. But not just any pen. A Uni-ball GEL Impact 1.0 mm. Black. Or a pencil, if the medium is hard, if the writing is to occur on a table or a desk, if the medium is paper, which is pulverized trees. Lined or graphed and in a notebook without a spiral. Not loose. Not blank. The medium must be contained, bound in some manner as to keep pages from separating. You touch to connect. A ...
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July 6, 2008
- “The fact is that the materials of the fiction writer are the humblest. Fiction is about everything human and we are made out of dust, and if you scorn getting yourself dusty, then you shouldn't try to write fiction. It's not a grand enough job for you.” Flannery O'Connor Yes Flannery, we are made out of dust, cosmic dust, the smallest particles of which we may soon actually discover, ...
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June 26, 2008
- “Then there were times when you had to write. Not conscience. Just peristaltic action. Then you felt sometimes like you could never write but after a while you knew sooner or later you would write another good story. It was really more fun than anything. That was really why you did it. He had never realized that before. It wasn’t conscience. It was simply that it was the greatest ...
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June 21, 2008
- "The truth of my writing – the spiritual truth for which I write – is all that darkness, so clear in its depth that there is, like God in eternity, no seeing to the end of it. David Plante I had never dreamed of writing a novel. I wanted to write stories. I began by writing short pieces. Serpent Box itself began as a short story that was inspired by a photograph of a boy I saw in a ...
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