Comments on: What Do Writers Read?

By: Maeve

Maeve — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:23:12 +0000

Dianna,
Stephen is teasing you because of this line:

Matilda De Braose, a noblewoman in whales in the 1800s

I think you meant to write Wales.

By: Dianna

Dianna — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:23:42 +0000

Um… she dies brutally. The death of her and her children, or at least one of them, is ordered by the king of England. And they starve to death in a dungeon.

If that answers your question.

By: Stephen Thorn

Stephen Thorn — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 17:02:05 +0000

Dianna: Did the noblewoman get swallowed up ala Jonah, or was she some kind of protean icthyopathologist? (ducking quickly to avoid anything that gets thrown in my direction)

By: Justin

Justin — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 14:26:34 +0000

Don DeLillo’s entire bibliography.

By: Stephen Thorn

Stephen Thorn — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 21:00:39 +0000

I can’t name one specific book or novel that “opened a window” for me, but in my junior high years I learned that there was such a thing as a porno novel! These were the equivalent of X-rated movies in paperback form (do they still publish such things in the age of the Internet?). I’d dabbled in writing absurdly amateurish porn myself, and suddenly I saw how it was done FOR MONEY! This opened a whole new type of writing to me, and I’ve done my share of writing in that genre (as many well-known authors have using pseudonyms — you’d be surprised) and even brought some of its techniques into my mainstream writing. Viva le smut!