tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-158025352024-03-13T23:44:32.922-05:00Deep Thoughts With BlogagaardThoughts on writing, publishing, and other strange things from author David OppegaardDavid Oppegaardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13954606202385847291noreply@blogger.comBlogger1011125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15802535.post-46771731300958149462015-01-16T14:25:00.000-06:002015-01-16T14:25:22.678-06:00Dear Traveler, Deep Thoughts Has Moved to My Author HomepageCheck out <a href="http://www.davidoppegaard.com/">www.davidoppegaard.com</a> for new blog posts! This here blog is done after a good ten year, 1,000 post run. I'll keep this now defunct blog up for the sake of historians who no doubt will one day want to know every detail of my existence on this spinning rock we call Earth, but no more shall you find me posting here.<br />
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So, to follow up on my previous now seven-week old post, today I have finished writing the new first draft of novel 15 (which is actually novel 16 if you want to split hairs). That's right, I've got a spanking new 105,000 words of novel after banishing the <i>original third draft </i>of novel 15 to the wasteland that is my computer's file folders.<br />
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Okay, this figure is technically about 95,000 new words with a 10,000 word very stand alone section salvaged from the original novel. But I think I still wrote 900 pages, or about 250,000 words in 2014, which yes is pure lunacy (this figure includes a rewrite for FLUX for another novel, which itself added 60 fresh pages to the manuscript). Yeah I should date more or at least leave the apartment where dating could happen to me, or the chance brush of a lady's tender hand mayhap fall upon me. But yeah. What's done is done and it's time to fucking rewrite this mutherfucker!<br />
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I'd have to say this draft, rough as it is, is already light years ahead of the original draft I shelved. So, so, so much better. Wayyyyyy better. Why? I guess it's got something to do with having lived in this world for so long (this dark town of Hawthorn world) that I was able to find new characters to fit it perfectly and also achieve my narrative goals, which my previous group couldn't quite manage to pull off for various reasons. Also, for whatever reason (probably my incessant fear that all this time and energy would be for naught) the plot in this draft is much tighter yet feels more...inevitable, which is something I preached every class when I taught plot.<br />
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Why not send it off immediately? It's not like my busy literary agent isn't eagerly awaiting our next crazy money making venture! God, all the money, how we loves it! Money is our precious! Well, alas, I kept getting the sense the book wasn't all it could be. You know, a sort of nagging sensation that I had let down all humanity yet again by not concocting the absolutely most perfect awesome novel of all time, a novel to rule them all and in darkness sell a million copies. The prose was solid, I loved the setting, and the plot...well, it was a plot, anyhow.<br />
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Eventually I boiled my unease down to the cocktail party question (also known as the elevator pitch). I.e. I had trouble summoning up what the new book was about when people asked me, much less pack it into a single good sales line (which I've come to learn is pretty much necessary if you actually want to sell your book). This led me to a bunch of other revelations and finally, with a sinking feeling, I realized the book wasn't good enough and probably wouldn't be good enough no matter how many more revisions I made. <br />
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God damn, huh? Six months of work down the old drain. Oppegaard Novel #15 was a fucking bust.<br />
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Yet not all is lost. After further reflection I realized one part of the book was too fucking good to shelve forever and I started thinking about another way to incorporate it into a new novel written otherwise from scratch. So that's what I'm doing now, writing a whole new novel set in the same town with the same title but with many new characters and a whole other focus. And, this time, if we meet at a party and you ask me about it I can say, with confidence, "It's about a town that's haunted, both metaphorically and literally."<br />
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And so I grind on, typing into this merciless Minnesota winter.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The night was cold. Steam rose in little
curls </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">From his many wounds. He walked along</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The side of a highway, praying some old</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Trucker would stop for him, see his
wounds,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">And realize his obligation to a wounded
man.</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">But no trucks came. Nobody came. It was
late</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">And the world was asleep. A soupy fog
hovered</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Above the ground, close but not quite
touching.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The farther he walked, the more the
wounded man</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Thought about the ocean, his skin clammier,
chewier,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">More squid-like with each passing mile.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">He didn’t blame anybody, though. He’d
asked for this.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">He’d asked to go to war, to run with the
monsters</span></div>
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he wounded</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Other men and watched steam rise from
their wounds.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">What he didn’t like (if he could be said
to still have opinions,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">In his condition) was that it was his
luck to be the last man</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Standing, chosen to die alone on some
godforsaken road.</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">But he kept walking. And walking.
Because the wounded man </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Knew that the next time he laid down the
hovering fog would</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Grasp him in its hand and carry him off to
a darker night.</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Searching for drowsy prey fat from its own
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"Writing" <br />
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often it is the only<br />
thing<br />
between you and<br />
impossibility.<br />
no drink,<br />
no woman's love,<br />
no wealth<br />
can<br />
match it. <br />
nothing can save<br />
you<br />
except<br />
writing. <br />
it keeps the walls<br />
from<br />
failing.<br />
the hordes from<br />
closing in. <br />
it blasts the<br />
darkness. <br />
writing is the<br />
ultimate<br />
psychiatrist, <br />
the kindliest<br />
god of all the<br />
gods. <br />
writing stalks<br />
death.<br />
it knows no<br />
quit. <br />
and writing<br />
laughs<br />
at itself,<br />
at pain. <br />
it is the last<br />
expectation,<br />
the last<br />
explanation. <br />
that's<br />
what it<br />
is. <br />
from blank gun silencer<br />
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(<span style="color: black;"><a class="nocolor" href="https://www.blogger.com/null">1920 - 1994</a>)
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Seagulls chillin' </div>
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Japanese-style peace park. Rang the gong and smelled the piney air.</div>
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After greeting the receptionist, I perused their book table.</div>
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Various Llewellyn titles.</div>
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They store their many titles in-house in an impressive warehouse.</div>
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Yep, just two literary cowboys out on the ponderosa, running down a dream. </div>
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Hi everyone!</div>
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My new novella Breakneck Cove
is out now as a Kindle ebook and available on Amazon through the Onyx
Neon Shorts series (and only 99 cents!). If you don't have a Kindle, you
can still read it on a computer using <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?docId=1000426311" target="_blank">free Kindle software</a>.<br />
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<i>Breakneck Cove is a cozy beach paradise tucked along the
Oregon Coast, idyllic and private, but when a strange creature washes up on
shore it triggers a violent chain of events that will change the lives of two
boys forever. A sci-fi novella in the classic tradition of authors such as
Ray Bradbury and Walter Tevis, Breakneck
Cove dredges the dark waters of youth and the unknown and returns with a
new skeleton all its own. </i></div>
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00N8AR08O/" target="_blank"><br /></a></div>
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00N8AR08O/" target="_blank">Click here to buy it!</a></div>
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That's what I did for so long in the taverns, patch over the hole. But my cures were not cures at all; they were places to hide. Surrounded by people, I practiced irony and sarcasm, the easiest arts."<br />
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-William Kittredge, <i>Who Owns The West?</i><br />
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I'm happy to announce I've sold my first young adult novel THE FIREBUG OF BALROG COUNTY to <a class="profileLink" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=20605567553" href="https://www.facebook.com/FluxBooks">Flux Books</a>. After getting an offer sheet back in March, today I officially signed the contract and mailed it in. <br />
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Here's some rough jacket copy for the book: <br />
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Dark
times have fallen on Balrog
County and <span class="il">Mack</span>
<span class="il">Druneswald</span>, a college dropout with a love of clandestine arson, is doing his
best to deal. While his family is haunted by the specter of his mother’s death,
<span class="il">Mack</span> spends his days working at a hardware store and his nights roaming the
countryside, looking for something new to burn. When he encounters a pale Goth
chick named Katrina, <span class="il">Mack</span> sets out on a path of dissipation and pyromania the
likes of which sleepy Balrog
County has never seen
before.<br />
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<i>The Firebug of Balrog County</i>
is about legend, small towns, and the fire that binds us all together.<br />
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FIREBUG will coming out in Fall of 2015!</div>
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<span class="userContent"><a href="http://afterdork.blogspot.com/">Riverview After Dork</a>, a new
blog-cast rising from the ashes of the comedic rom-com film review <a href="http://www.whenharrymetfatty.com/">When Harry Met Fatty</a> podcast, Noah Warren and David Oppegaard are going to view and then review the late night Riverview Theater Summer Film Series. It'll be part blog, part mini-podcast, and all dorky fun.</span><br />
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<span class="userContent">For <a href="http://afterdork.blogspot.com/">Epsiode #1 </a>we enter the magically trippy world of <i>The NeverEnding Story</i>. Come for the jokes and playful ennui, stay for the movie madness!</span><br />
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So here are the questions I have been tasked to answer:<br />
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<i><b>1) What am I working on?</b></i><br />
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I'm currently working on a novel<i><b> </b></i>titled <i>The Town Built in Darkness</i>. Set in both 1857-77 and the present, it'll be my most ambitious work yet. Of course, ambition doesn't always lead to success, but I'm about 270 pages into it at the moment and I'm liking what's happening. The past sections concern the almost mythological founding/development of an alpine foothills town called Sawford and the present sections follow the Webb family as they move to Sawford and undergo various trails.<br />
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I'm also about to start working with FLUX Books on a young adult novel I've recently sold to them called <i>The Firebug of Balrog County</i>.<br />
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<i><b>2) How does my work differ from others of its genre?</b></i><br />
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Here's a question I got in a <a href="http://ericbeetner.blogspot.com/2014/04/interview-with-david-oppegaard.html">blog interview with Eric Beetner</a> recently:<br />
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"You write cross-genre hybrids. What are your influences for that stuff? You seem to be operating in your own little world.<i><b> "</b></i><br />
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I'm proud to have received that question and happy to be writing in my own little world. I've been equally influenced by genre and literary works and my own work attempts to blend the great strengths of both and while adding a darkly comic/philosophic Oppegaard twist to it all. I try to break new ground with every single novel, which has gotten more challenging as I've dug into my fifteenth novel.<br />
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<b><i>3) Why do I write wha</i><i>t I write?</i></b><br />
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Because I'm weird.<i><b> </b></i>Because I often enjoy the world I can create in my head more than the real world around me. Because I want to add to the creative stream as best I can. Because it's one of the few things I'm exceptionally good at.<br />
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<b><i>4) How does your writing process work</i>?</b><br />
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I primarily write novels, with only three or four short stories popping up a year, tops. I'm always searching for a cool idea that I can play with over the course of an entire novel, something that speaks to me and I think I can take and run with. Getting that idea can be hard sometimes and sometimes not so hard. I can spend months torturing myself to come up with something or a good idea might pop into my head a week after the previous novel has been sent to my agent. Once I have an idea that seems to have legs, I begin writing immediately and start roughing out a plot outline. The outline is vague at first but hopefully by halfway through the first draft I have it detailed down to one sentence describing each chapters and I've envisioned the novel's ending. For me the rough draft of a novel is always a delicate balance between leaving yourself room for the story to veer unexpectedly while holding a rough map in your mind of where you want it headed. Much like a good cross country road trip, I suppose.<br />
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Once I've got that rough draft done, I take a breath and start editing the next day. My second draft usually happens on Word because the document is still so rough a pen and paper edit would be ridiculous. However the 3rd draft is usually a pen and paper edit and from there I alternate between computer drafts and paper drafts-each format has its own advantages and I believe anyone who edits wholly on a computer is editing with one hand tied behind their back.<br />
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Finally, I'd like to add that writing one novel is an insane proposition and I can only wonder what writing 15 of them by the age of 34 says about me. <br />
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Ok, I've tagged Jeff Smieding and Satish Jayaraj to carry on this #MyWritingProcess Blog Hop.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span>Throughout the past ten years, </span><span>Jeff </span><span>Smieding has </span><span>been </span><span>a rocker, </span><span>a </span><span>roller, and an aspiring writer. He’s been</span> <span>heavily involved in the Twin Cities live performance scene, from playing bass</span><span> in local bands Kentucky Gag Order and Belles Of Skin </span><span>City,</span> <span>to</span> <span>reading original literature</span><span> with <a href="http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=10069328500" target="_blank">The Lit 6 Project</a>, <a href="http://www.electricarcradio.com/" target="_blank">Electric Arc Radio</a>, <a href="http://www.talkimage.org/" target="_blank">Talking Image Connections</a>, and the <a href="http://www.myspace.com/riotactreading" target="_blank">Riot Act Reading Series</a>. </span><span> </span><span>In
that time, Smieding also managed to garner for himself a Master of Fine
Arts degree in Creative Writing from Hamline University, in Saint Paul,
MN</span><span>, to go along with his BA in English from the University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire</span><span>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span>His debut novel, </span><em><span>And In Their Passing, A Darkness</span></em><span>, is a dark fantasy fairy tale in the style of the Brothers Grimm, has been published by <a href="http://blog.redsofaliterary.com/" target="_blank">Red Sofa Literary</a>.</span></span><br />
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<span class="wsite-text wsite-headline" style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Satish Jayaraj is a creative writer of multiple genres, ambassador of spoken literature through <a href="http://www.crackedwalnut.com/"><i>Cracked Walnut</i></a>, and devotee of Batman. His first fantasy novel '<i><a href="http://satishjayaraj.weebly.com/publications.html" title="">Secret Of the Naga Dragons</a>' </i>is available as an e-book on <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Secret-Naga-Dragons-Shastra-ebook/dp/B00BHJEM5C/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1367464836&sr=1-1" title="">Amazon</a>. </span></span></span></h2>
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/TheLoftLiteraryCenter" target="_blank">The Loft Literary Center</a><br />
1011 Washington Avenue South, <br />
Open Book, Suite 20<br />
Minneapolis, MN<br />
<b>Friday, June 6th at 7 PM</b><br />
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/eatmywordsbookstore" target="_blank">Eat My Words Bookstore</a></div>
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Minneapolis, MN </div>
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<b>Saturday, June 7th at 2 PM</b></div>
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<a href="http://www.davidoppegaard.com/hillsgame1.html">Play the HILLS Choose Your Own Adventure Game </a><br />
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<a href="http://gingernutsofhorror.com/5/post/2014/03/horror-author-interview-david-oppegaard.html">Interview with Ginger Nuts of Horror</a><br />
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<a href="http://gingernutsofhorror.com/12/post/2014/03/the-film-that-made-me-david-oppegaard-on-the-never-ending-story.html">How The NeverEnding Story influenced me </a><br />
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<a href="http://www.thisishorror.co.uk/david-oppegaard/">Author Profile on This Is Horror</a><br />
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<a href="http://spaceythompson.blogspot.com/2014/03/bad-dad.html">Analysis of "The Rake's Song" by the Decemberists on Hardboiled Wonderland</a><br />
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<a href="http://page69test.blogspot.com/2014/03/and-hills-opened-up.html"> The Page 69 Test via Campaign for the American Reader</a><br />
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<a href="http://dosomedamage.blogspot.com/2014/03/quick-notes.html">A mini-review of HILLS on Do Some Damage</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><div><a expr:name='data:post.title' expr:id='data:post.url' onmouseover='return addthis_open(this, "", this.id, this.name);' onmouseout='addthis_close()' onclick='return addthis_sendto()'><img src="http://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/lg-share-en.gif" width="125" height="16" alt="Bookmark and Share" style="border:0"/></a>
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My new novel And the Hills Opened Up is now available in paperback and on Kindle! </div>
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<span style="color: #cfe2f3;">Life in the small 1890 Wyoming mining town of Red Earth revolves around
plundering the copper seam and the weekly stagecoach that brings payroll
from the Dennison mining company. When opening a new section of the
mine frees a monster known only as "the Charred Man," everyone in the
town must choose how to make their stand, and who they'll protect. A
feverish foreman, an inexperienced sheriff, a widowed whore, and a
kindly outlaw are just some of the engrossing characters in Oppegaard's
page-turner. The narrative is subtle and lovely, contrasting with a
creepy, believable monster. The two combine in a story that's horrific,
thrilling, touching, and unflinchingly satisfying to the last page. -Publisher's Weekly (Starred Review)
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Thanks to Noah Warren for putting this baby together!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><div><a expr:name='data:post.title' expr:id='data:post.url' onmouseover='return addthis_open(this, "", this.id, this.name);' onmouseout='addthis_close()' onclick='return addthis_sendto()'><img src="http://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/lg-share-en.gif" width="125" height="16" alt="Bookmark and Share" style="border:0"/></a>
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"The world hasn't been quite the same since I stopped blogging a few
weeks ago, my traveling done and my Hardcore Travel Reporting blog
rendered futile. Thus I am back with this tasty new blog, where I will
seek to peel back the many layers of infinity and hopefully come to a
profound revelation of some sort regarding something somehow. I may be
only pale fire compared to the venerable Jack Handey, but I will do my
best to think deeper, harder, and longer than almost every human being
on the planet with the exceptions of Alan Greenspan and Gary Kasparov."<br />
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I see now that my cheeky goal of thinking deeper, harder, and longer has been achieved, but at the great cost. While babbling on this blog, I have also somehow written fourteen novels to date. <br />
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1. The Nebula Quest (sci-fi age 15-16)<br />
2. Other Dreams (YA fantasy age 16-17)<br />
3. Torch Lit (literary age 21)<br />
4. Knocking Over the Fishbowl (Literary age 22-23)<br />
5. The Suicide Collectors (sci-fi/horror age 24-25)<br />
6. The Cobalt Legacy (literary age 24-25)<br />
7. Wormwood, Nevada (sci-fi/literary age 27)<br />
8. From the Void (dark fantasy age 28)<br />
9. The Ragged Mountains (YA fantasy age 29)<br />
10. The Floating Luminosity (literary/fantasy age 30)<br />
11. Special (literary/horror age 31) <br />
12. And the Hills Opened Up (horror/western age 32)<br />
13. The Firebug of Balrog County (YA literary age 33)<br />
14. Bring Her Back (thriller age 33-34)<br />
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As one can see, I have not been sitting idly by the past ten years. I have been sitting and typing! And drinking. And plot outlining. The books have come so fast and furious I had to dig into my email archives to recall their order and approximate date of conception (I was three years off in my mind for SPECIAL, for example). Upon my digging, I found an email my agent Jonathan sent me nearly ten years ago, approximately three months before I began this blog.<br />
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David,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">I've
been agonizing <span class="il">over</span> your novel for the past week, hoping that I might be able to
find a suggestion that would overcome my reservations. Unfortunately, I couldn't
find that "one thing" that would push me one way or the other, and I felt that
the delay in my response has become too great. Ultimately, I also concluded that
you should have an agent representing you who does not need a "push" like this.
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">I
really have no negative comments to speak of regarding <span class="il">KNOCKING</span> <span class="il">OVER</span> THE
<span class="il">FISHBOWL</span>. I enjoyed all of the characters, and I felt that you smoothly went
from person to person without losing track of the storyline as a whole. I
also liked the humorous undercurrent throughout - and in this way I
found your writing similar to Dave Barry, albeit a bit less farcical. You
captured Wilson's "insanity" accurately and poignantly, but never
allowed the reader to feel sorry for him. The only narrative line that I felt
needed some work was Officer Lance's out-of-control antipathy towards Scrags and
others, and the motivations for the behavior. Still, overall I felt you have
created a wonderfully eccentric cast of characters and
storyline.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">Unfortunately, I just didn't fall in love with the
novel. While a few agents might feel that "enjoyed" is sufficient to take on a
work, I feel differently. Getting a book published is becoming more difficult
every day, and I really feel an author needs an agent who is so passionate about
the work, so in love with it, that they will fight for it to the very end.
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">I am
sure this is abundantly clear from my above comments, but even still, you should
know that this business is a highly subjective one. I strongly suggest querying
other agents, and I have no doubts that you will find one that feels as
passionately about your work as you do. I wish I had better news for you, and I
would be honored to look at anything else you might produce in the
future.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">Best,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">Jonathan I. Lyons</span></div>
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I would go on the rewrite FISHBOWL with newly acquired MFA skillz and
Jonathan would be kind enough to reread it and take me on as a client.
Thus began the greatest mistake he would ever make. As he reads the
newest book, he is reading his eleventh Oppegaard work, not counting many, many rewrites.<br />
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Here's a descriptive excerpt from it that I liked:<br />
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"There were trees everywhere, tall, broad-crowned deciduous trees, cluttered with green leaves, full of chattering birds. The patch, which was no more than beaten earth and bare rockface, was crossed in several places by huge roots that resembled prehistoric animals. The grass growing alongside the streambed was thick and lush. In the wilderness at the bottom there were fallen trees with smooth trunks, and many plants covered the bed between the dry, lifeless branches, which had been there for as long as I could remember. It was easy to imagine that the forest was deep, endlessly deep, and full of mystery."<br />
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The <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2014/02/17/140217fi_fiction_knausgaard">piece published in the Feb 17th and 24th issue of the Yorker</a> and is apparently part of a longer book/six volume series by Knausgaard. There's also <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2014/02/this-week-in-fiction-karl-ove-knausgaard.html">an interview with him</a> on the Yorker blog. In the interview he states:<br />
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"The tricky thing was, indeed, to refuse my older and more experienced
self any space in the text. Everyone wants to be clever—it’s hard to
give up that side and go blindly for stupidity. But even more
frightening was the fact that it was so easy—that this combination of
cockiness and cluelessness, as you so precisely pin it down, was
apparently still very close to my present self. I guess I have a talent
for humiliation, a place within me that experience can’t reach, which is
terrible in real life, but something that comes in handy in writing. It
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I recently participated as a judge in an on-line short story contest. As I perused thirty-nine short stories, I was reminded of something that occurs to me every time I teach creative writing: that fiction is just one more form of communication.</div>
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Yes, I know. This seems obvious, right? But, alas, you'd be surprised how many beginning writers forget this. Leaving all other craft elements of fiction aside for the moment, the prose of beginning fiction writers is often so muddled that one has trouble figuring out what the hell is going on, much less getting engrossed in a tale and being moved by it in some way. </div>
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The basic nuts and bolts of writing a good story is really not much different than writing a clear and powerful essay, but I think the idea of writing "fiction" somehow makes a lot of beginning writers temporarily insane. They're like a piano student who can play "chopsticks" just fine sitting down to the piano one day and trying to pound out the complete works of Rachmaninoff in one afternoon. They're going for the gusto and the glory of the high levels they know to exist in the mystical land of fiction without having carefully, methodically, trained themselves to cover the vast expanse in-between (and the in-between is, really, where the true glory and craftsmanship lies).<br />
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I found a passage in a <i>Paris Review </i>interview with Jorge Luis Borges that speaks to this:</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Look, I mean to say this: When I began writing, I thought that everything should be defined by the writer. For example, to say “the moon” was strictly forbidden; that one had to find an adjective, an epithet for the moon. (Of course, I'm simplifying things. I know it because many times I have written “la luna,” but this is a kind of symbol of what I was doing.) Well, I thought everything had to be defined and that no common turns of phrase should be used. I would never have said, “So-and-so came in and sat down,” because that was far too simple and far too easy. I thought I had to find out some fancy way of saying it. Now I find out that those things are generally annoyances to the reader. But I think the whole root of the matter lies in the fact that when a writer is young he feels somehow that what he is going to say is rather silly or obvious or commonplace, and then he tries to hide it under baroque ornament, under words taken from the seventeenth-century writers; or, if not, and he sets out to be modern, then he does the contrary: He's inventing words all the time, or alluding to airplanes, railway trains, or the telegraph and telephone because he's doing his best to be modern. Then as time goes on, one feels that one's ideas, good or bad, should be plainly expressed, because if you have an idea you must try to get that idea or that feeling or that mood into the mind of the reader. If, at the same time, you are trying to be, let's say, Sir Thomas Browne or Ezra Pound, then it can't be done. So that I think a writer always begins by being too complicated: He's playing at several games at the same time. He wants to convey a peculiar mood; at the same time he must be a contemporary and if not a contemporary, then he's a reactionary and a classic. As to the vocabulary, the first thing a young writer, at least in this country, sets out to do is to show his readers that he possesses a dictionary, that he knows all the synonyms; so we get, for example, in one line, <i>red</i>, then we get <i>scarlet</i>, then we get other different words, more or less, for the same color: <i>purple</i>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">You've worked, then, toward a kind of classical prose?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Yes, I do my best now. Whenever I find an out-of-the-way word, that is to say, a word that may be used by the Spanish classics or a word used in the slums of Buenos Aires, I mean, a word that is different from the others, then I strike it out, and I use a common word. I remember that Stevenson wrote that in a well-written page all the words should look the same way. If you write an uncouth word or an astonishing or an archaic word, then the rule is broken; and what is far more important, the attention of the reader is distracted by the word. One should be able to read smoothly in it even if you're writing metaphysics or philosophy or whatever.</span><br />
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Good writing doesn't need to be fancy, though it sometimes is. The most important thing a writer needs to do, before he uses fancy words or proves to the world how clever he is, is communicate the idea behind the story he's trying to tell and do so in a vivid way that resonates with (as opposed to impresses) a reader. This is why a good writer is a paradox of ego centric (I'm god! I fucking created this world and I made it awesome!) and ego-less (who cares what people think about me, the real world person, as long as I've served the story in a honest way and done it justice without blatantly forcing my own agenda on it). All writing is communication and communication, like love in that ubiquitous wedding poem, is not proud.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><div><a expr:name='data:post.title' expr:id='data:post.url' onmouseover='return addthis_open(this, "", this.id, this.name);' onmouseout='addthis_close()' onclick='return addthis_sendto()'><img src="http://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/lg-share-en.gif" width="125" height="16" alt="Bookmark and Share" style="border:0"/></a>
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too far, a bloodthirsty creature is set loose upon the isolated mountain town
of Red Earth, Wyoming. If a reluctant alliance of outlaws,
miners, misfits, and whores cannot stop the Charred Man, everyone in Red Earth
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Basically, a writer spends a lot of their time describing how characters are standing, fidgeting, not fidgeting, glaring, not glaring, etc. in an effort to not simply use obvious and often quite clunky dialogue tags. So instead of "he said nervously" we might go with "he said, his eyes darting toward the window". Or instead of "she said reassuringly" we might go with "she said, putting her arm around his shoulder". <br />
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Subtext is an important craft element for many writers-in fact, you could argue that beautifully handled subtext is one of <i>the </i>main strengths of a lot of American fiction (I'm thinking of Ray Carver, Hemingway, Lorrie Moore). In <i>The Art of Subtext: Beyond Plot</i> by Charles Baxter we get a tight little book of craft essays revolving around subtext and its offshoot subjects. <br />
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Baxter states that "any thought considered unthinkable qualifies as subtext", which immediately makes one think of classic plays like <i>A Long Days Journey Into Night</i>, <i>A Doll's House</i>, <i>Death of a Salesman</i>, <i>A Streetcar Named Desire</i>, etc. Really, any drama that is propelled by a supercharged idea (or set of ideas) that is either never directly stated or not stated until the narrative's denouement could be considered mainly powered by subtext, which, now that I think about it, is almost all drama.<br />
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Among other subjects, Baxter talks about how modern folk have gotten really good at filtering out various ads and how that filtering has crept into our daily interactions with each other (and how showing that can be useful in fiction-people can often talk past each other to both comic and tragic effect). Also, when compared to fiction of days past modern fiction tends to negate the face-we used to get pages of face/body description yet today most authors either skip physical description entirely or give it only a few lines (I myself try to nails my character descriptions in three sentences, max). Baxter states that Don DeLillo, postmodernist that he is, doesn't seem to believe the human face is really important at all (think of <i>Mao II</i> and the mass wedding service in a stadium). Yet if we lose the face, we lose a key element of subtext! <br />
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Baxter also talks about having to fight your normal urge to avoid conflict in real life in an effort to bring conflict (which hopefully will itself lead to a revelatory moment) to the page. I found this particularly insightful as a lifelong resident of MN and after teaching fiction and trying bring out conflict in the work of my students.<br />
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<i>People who have practiced good manners and conflict-avoidance all their lives have to remember to leave those habits of mind at the door when they enter the theater of fiction. Stories thrive on bad behavior, bad manners, confrontations, and unpalatable characters who by wish or compulsion make their desires visible by creating scenes...The perennial Dostoyevskian question is, "Do you want the truth or agreeable-seeming flasehoods?" Fiction is that place where human beings do not have to be better than they really are, where characters can and should confront each other, where they must create scenes, where desire will have its day, where all truth is beautiful. Fiction is the antidote to the conduct manual.</i><br />
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Show your characters accurately and piercingly as they are on the surface and their true essence will, eventually, come forth. At least, that's the hope.<br />
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