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Genre: Literary Fiction
About thespyglassLocation: Behind the Guardian, Liverpool, Britain Home Region: Age:26 Website: http://sleepercity.wordpress.com Favorite writers: Atwood, Orwell, Okri, Woolf, Austen, Pullman Favorite music: I'm yet to top the soundtrack to The Hours Non-noveling interests: Film, poetry, TV, music, current affairs, my dogs, keeping vaguely fit |
Joined: October 2, 2007 This Year: Official Participant NaNoWriMo History: NaNoWriMo posts: 29 NaNoWriMo buddies: 26
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Brief Author Bio: @thespyglass on Twitter Compulsive scribbler: lots of journal-type stuff, random observations, homeless dialogue, attempts at poetry, beginnings and halfways of prose-ish things... "Good novels are not written by orthodoxy-sniffers, nor by people who are conscience-stricken about their own unorthodoxy. Good novels are written by people who are not frightened." - Orwell |
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Synopsis: Ghosts [working title]
15th Oct: Still no synopsis. This year I want to play with narrative structure and perspective, use unreliable, frustrating protagonists and generally mess up format in an echo of my characters' respective states of mind. I've got four or five ideas of people floating around and various scenes I want to have manifest around them. Themes include isolation and (dis)connection (all kinds). I can't resist a bit of social commentary or psuedo-philosophical meandering.
29th Oct: Still no synopsis. Same (or similar) story from four different perspectives utilising different styles. Various themes, hopefully complementary. General exploration of different approaches to affecting the world (or failing to, or deciding not to, and why). General questions re. social animals, individualism, accidental collectivism, abstention etc. Specific plot situation re. destructive organised presence in characters' local area which draws responses, galvanises them in strange ways.
Yes, I'm attempting literary fiction.
16th Nov: Errrr...
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