Joseph Patrick PascaleOct 16, 20175 minMaxine 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 Drawi...
Joseph Patrick PascaleOct 2, 20173 minOctavia Butler: Physical Writing ProcessInspiring Oneself Octavia Butler's groundbreaking writing continues to captivate readers as they rethink humanity and society through the...
Joseph Patrick PascaleSep 25, 20177 minDalton 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 th...
Joseph Patrick PascaleAug 28, 20176 minGeorge 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, acco...
Joseph Patrick PascaleMar 2, 20166 minGogol’s Impossibilities of ImaginationSome reflections on magical realism via Nikolai Gogol It would be easy to brush aside the absurd impossibilities of Nikolai Gogol’s “The ...
Joseph Patrick PascaleAug 25, 20144 minDonna Tartt: Physical Writing ProcessLiterary Talismans Literature as we tend to conceive of it exists in the realm of the mind, represented by little markings that are easil...
Joseph Patrick PascaleApr 27, 20142 minKnow Thyself, but be open to new ideasNote: I’m part of a small writing guild called Scrawl. This is an excerpt from an issue of the Scrawl newsletter. For various reasons, I’...
Joseph Patrick PascaleMar 14, 20144 min#TwitterFiction & the Art of MicrofictionI decided to write a quick blog entry after reading an article in The Millions by Elizabeth Minkel entitled, "Can #TwitterFiction Transce...
Joseph Patrick PascaleJun 5, 20114 minFranz Kafka: Physical Writing ProcessQuartered 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 PascaleMay 15, 20113 minJoyce & Borges: Physical Writing ProcessThe Physical Writing Process: James Joyce & Jorge Luis Borges - Writing With Eye Trouble I have the impression that the most iconic image...
Joseph Patrick PascaleMay 9, 20114 minJonathan Franzen: Physical Writing ProcessDestroy the Internet In a recent post I wrote, “I tend to type my novels directly into GoogleDocs so that they are constantly backed up o...
Joseph Patrick PascaleMay 2, 20113 minNeal Stephenson: Physical Writing ProcessFountain Pen and Malfunctioning Typewriter Neal Stephenson started out writing on a typewriter, but when he began work on The Baroque Cyc...
Joseph Patrick PascaleApr 28, 20113 minWilliam Gibson: Physical Writing ProcessThe Cyberpunk Future was Written on Hemingway’s Typewriter In my abandoned, unfinished novel RPGs Aren’t Censored, a character says, “The...
Joseph Patrick PascaleApr 25, 20114 minJack Kerouac: Physical Writing ProcessWhenever I encounter tales of the way writers physically sit down to write one of their books, I’m always fascinated. I like to imagine w...