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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
Sep 24, 20177 min read
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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
Aug 27, 20176 min read
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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
Aug 24, 20144 min read
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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
Apr 26, 20142 min read
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#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
Mar 13, 20144 min read
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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
Jun 5, 20114 min read
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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 15, 20113 min read
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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...

Joseph Patrick Pascale
Apr 24, 20114 min read
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Creative Overgrowth
in a Windowsill Garden I am honored to have my work included in On A Narrow Windowsill: Fiction & Poetry Folded Onto Twitter alongside 42...

Joseph Patrick Pascale
Dec 29, 20102 min read
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"Wayfinder: Home of the Lýkos"
and "To Live a Life That is Not My Own" by Suany Cañarte It's been a big publishing week for the author Suany Cañarte. Finally, some of...

Joseph Patrick Pascale
Aug 21, 20102 min read
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Ulysses
Oxford World's Classics Recently, I've been working on my novel The Bookstore Hobos, and I've amused myself by adding a minor, yet...

Joseph Patrick Pascale
Jun 25, 20103 min read
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