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Here's a story of the story I'm writing, Come to Nothing
... not, Here's a story, of the story I'm writing, come to nothing;
but, Here's a story of the story I'm writing, Come to Nothing.
It's called Come to Nothing a phrase found in Stranger than Fiction, by Edwin Frank, excerpted
"Wow, that's probably the most truthful and elegant description of the process I've heard. If you write fiction ..." things from Conversations with Steve Erickson*
*ed.s Matthew Luter and Mike Miley, Uni. of Mississippi, 2021
... , it doesn't matter if you're writing about another century or another planet; you can't get away from yourself and your own experience.
SE:
You can't and you don't really
R.I.P. RyΕ« Murakami, ζδΈ ιΎ, 19 February 1952β17 October 2026
Murakami's first short novel, pictured above, is structurally perfect. At least I consider it, alongside Yukio Mishima's The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea, to be structurally perfect, and this to be the result, in both cases, of a crystalline clarity of expression. The