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Originally Posted by Iphinome
You know, this has possibilities. Costumes and fake voices. Hires some friends and do a pre-scripted panel together. Have your conservative writer alter ego blast your liberal one with literary bludgeons. Writing under several pen names as a form of performance art.
Then go for an Ender's game type of ending. Mwahahahahahahaha
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That way madness lies
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Originally Posted by Moejoe
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A novel about writing and the romance of writing.
A pulp novel that is written by the character from the first novel.
A false memoir of the pulp writer and his creation.
At the minute I'm up to the part where Jon Wen is listening to the song of mermaids out in the water beyond the pier, and Benny Fortune is quizzing a deluded and psychotic Hollywood agent in the LA Recording studio of Mermaid Records.  |
Sounds like a huge project and a very interesting
exercise in styles. I'd love to read the whole set, as long as I knew, as I do now, what is (meta)fictional and what is not. And I think it would be very funny to see how many people actually like the fictional pulp novel more than the main novel itself.
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Originally Posted by Robin O'Neill
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Am I glad to have gone digital? Do you really have to ask?
Cheers!
Robin
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That's what I was thinking, the digital age removes many of the issues Lemurion raised about the need for different names for different genders. On the other hand, it makes it even easier to create as many alter egos as one wants.
This discussion reminded me of a brilliant novella by indie pulp writer Moxie Mezcal,
Fake, about a journalist inventing a whole new person on whom he bases a series of sensational articles.
Sorry for being largely off-topic, I'll shut up now