Joseph Patrick Pascale
Maxine Hong Kingston: Physical Writing Process
"Instead of a woman warrior with a sword, I could create one with a pen who would be just as dramatic." - Maxine Hong Kingston From...
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Joseph Patrick Pascale
- Oct 2, 2017
- 3 min
Octavia Butler: Physical Writing Process
Inspiring Oneself Octavia Butler's groundbreaking writing continues to captivate readers as they rethink humanity and society through the...
Joseph Patrick Pascale
- Sep 25, 2017
- 7 min
Dalton Trumbo: Physical Writing Process
Writing in the Bathtub & the Duality of Screenwriter-Novelist Dalton Trumbo liked to write while he was in the bathtub. I wouldn’t say...
Joseph Patrick Pascale
- Aug 28, 2017
- 6 min
George R. R. Martin: Writer's Block
"My dream chronology is that the books finish first, and I do have a considerable lead over them," George R. R. Martin said in 2013,...
Joseph Patrick Pascale
- Mar 2, 2016
- 6 min
Gogol’s Impossibilities of Imagination
Some reflections on magical realism via Nikolai Gogol It would be easy to brush aside the absurd impossibilities of Nikolai Gogol’s “The...
Joseph Patrick Pascale
- Aug 25, 2014
- 4 min
Donna Tartt: Physical Writing Process
Literary Talismans Literature as we tend to conceive of it exists in the realm of the mind, represented by little markings that are...
Joseph Patrick Pascale
- Apr 27, 2014
- 2 min
Know Thyself, but be open to new ideas
Note: I’m part of a small writing guild called Scrawl. This is an excerpt from an issue of the Scrawl newsletter. For various reasons,...
Joseph Patrick Pascale
- Mar 14, 2014
- 4 min
#TwitterFiction & the Art of Microfiction
I decided to write a quick blog entry after reading an article in The Millions by Elizabeth Minkel entitled, "Can #TwitterFiction...
Joseph Patrick Pascale
- Jun 5, 2011
- 4 min
Franz Kafka: Physical Writing Process
Quartered Onionskin Paper & My Own Blue Notebooks There’s an episode fairly late in Kafka’s life, September 1917 to April 1918, when his...
Joseph Patrick Pascale
- May 15, 2011
- 3 min
Joyce & Borges: Physical Writing Process
The Physical Writing Process: James Joyce & Jorge Luis Borges - Writing With Eye Trouble I have the impression that the most iconic...
Joseph Patrick Pascale
- May 9, 2011
- 4 min
Jonathan Franzen: Physical Writing Process
Destroy the Internet In a recent post I wrote, “I tend to type my novels directly into GoogleDocs so that they are constantly backed up...
Joseph Patrick Pascale
- May 2, 2011
- 3 min
Neal Stephenson: Physical Writing Process
Fountain Pen and Malfunctioning Typewriter Neal Stephenson started out writing on a typewriter, but when he began work on The Baroque...
Joseph Patrick Pascale
- Apr 28, 2011
- 3 min
William Gibson: Physical Writing Process
The Cyberpunk Future was Written on Hemingway’s Typewriter In my abandoned, unfinished novel RPGs Aren’t Censored, a character says, “The...
Joseph Patrick Pascale
- Apr 25, 2011
- 4 min
Jack Kerouac: Physical Writing Process
Whenever I encounter tales of the way writers physically sit down to write one of their books, I’m always fascinated. I like to imagine...
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