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Struggling Writer

MikePerry — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:55:24 +0000

For the students of PCIS, here are the images we worked with today when we spoke about writing and revision (if you click on the pictures, you will see a few comments).

The Best Part

MikePerry — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 15:10:31 +0000

Revision: my favorite stage in the writing process. This is when the obsessive-compulsive tendencies that frustrate me to the edge of madness throughout the rest of the process (and daily life itself) suddenly become an asset. This is the inky equivalent of a musician tinkering with the mix.

Not Exacty Hunter Thompson

MikePerry — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 18:40:36 +0000

After an all-nighter, time for lunch: more coffee, and dry sugar-bomb cereal in a mug.

So Slow, But…

MikePerry — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 17:16:29 +0000

…getting there. Using a friend’s dining room table. Thank you friend(s).

Reason #742 Writing is Unlike Logging

MikePerry — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 22:51:55 +0000

My two brothers and I are all self-employed and used to taking our work where we can find it. As such I am at this moment working on a book while sitting in a hotel lobby. While considering the pros and cons of the portability of my job, I was given to think of my brother Jed trying to log in a hotel lobby. Knowing him as I do, I can tell you he would get quite a kick out of the attempt. I can almost smell the two-cycle exhaust. And I think we could snake the skidder cables in through the automatic doors, although one assumes the SWAT teams would have arrived by then.

A Good Editor

MikePerry — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 17:31:58 +0000

Current book project moving along…one more big deadline to hit, and if I hit it, the book will be out in August 2012. Fingers not crossed, because that makes it tough to type. All writers should be blessed with an editor like mine. She has mastered the ability to tolerate my false starts and wish-wash and perplexitude and yet she knows just when to brandish the figurative ball peen hammer…wrapped in velvet, of course.

Maybe Slide A Sandwich Under the Door

MikePerry — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 19:05:30 +0000

Holed up writing for days now. Dirty dishes to prove it.

Time Roars On By

MikePerry — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 15:04:59 +0000

An interview I did in 2005. Pretty sure I still stand by every word of it.

Wore That M Right Offa There

MikePerry — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 17:40:58 +0000

This is Mike Writing

MikePerry — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 12:50:43 +0000

Imagine a pile of bricks. Imagine a bricklayer determined to build a beautiful wall from those bricks. Now imagine the bricklayer attempting to construct that wall by strapping on a helmet, tying his hands behind his back, and bashing into… Continue reading →