Jonathan Cosgrove

Category: Writing

  • too much of a good thing

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    I’m a fiend for writing advice. A goddamn fiend. I love reading about the craft of writing. Whether it’s how to plot successful stories, craft great characters, or even honing and sharpen sentences–I’m all in. However, I know myself well enough to know when I’ve had too much of a good thing. Yesterday I reread…

  • lately

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    Will Christopher Baer – The Age of Reason – Truthfully, I still haven’t read this story but I love Baer and I’m really excited for his non-fiction book that’s coming out soon(?) ish(?) on his time working in psychiatric institutions. And I’ll probably read it by the end of the day. If you haven’t read…

  • quality doesn’t matter.

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    Matt Bell talking to my very soul this morning.

  • Surmount all obstacles

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    I did some work on the novel this morning before work. Came up with a pretty great scene that takes place largely before the point at which I started my narrative. I knew that scene was there, all along. Skulking in the shadows. The problem–as is always the problem with coming up with new beginnings…

  • Someone always says it better…

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    After my post yesterday I got some of my favourite regular e-mail this year – my monthly writing exercise from Matt Bell (If you haven’t signed up you’re missing out.) This month he wrote about Choice and Complicity. It was a fascinating read and the subject matter, though difficult to fully execute in prose, is…