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chesh78
Over 90 days ago
Straight Male
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Quote by Verbal
God, I love him. I remember stumbling upon "White Jazz" at the library (what a perfect title) and then going back to read the rest of the L A Quartet (yeah, I know, I fucked up reading the last book first), and then went on to blow through everything he'd ever written.
His appearances on Letterman were wonderfully bizarre too.
White Jazz was breathtaking, as is the Black Dahlia, although my favourite of the original "LA Quartet" remains LA Confidential (and the film was spectacular). The only one in the series that was a let down for me was The Big Nowhere; and unfortunately, his "Second LA Quartet" is shaping up to be a slight disappointment - the first in the series, Perfidia, is nowhere near as good as his older works.
On an aside, Ellroy's "Underworld USA" trilogy is equally as good and as murky as his LA based stuff.
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I slept with a co-worker who was engaged and living with her partner at the time. He worked really early shifts, so she'd sneak out after he'd left - like 5.30, 6 am - and come round to mine and we'd fuck before going into work, and then usually stay late and fuck in the office before she went home. Crazy time...
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Quote by Burquette
Don't be that writer.
Unfortunately, I am that writer...
I have a habit of editing as I go along, which often leads me to writing, re-writing, and re-writing whole paragraphs, sentences - even words. It's a bugger and I know I shouldn't do it, but I can't seem to help myself. I'm striving for perfection from the get-go, even though I know that even the best writers in the world don't get it right from the start and have to draft and re-draft.
Although, I do agree that some time spent away from a story can be a really good thing. I have a short story that I often return to when I have writer's block, and which has been through around seven versions so far. Each one is, in my opinion, better than the last. I think that, as an exercise in getting a writer to write, and also in seeing how your skills have improved over time, re-visiting and re-working old stories can be quite beneficial.
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It all depends on personal preference, I guess - but on the whole I'd say 1st person. It's a bit more forgiving on the 'show don't tell aspect' (you can get away with a bit more, since the narrator can 'tell' the story a bit more. Personally, I always start 1st person and then try and rewrite parts in 3rd person and see what works best.
