tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1657662925997069756.post1563562157420307067..comments2019-03-04T23:30:14.349-08:00Comments on Michael Gruber's Blog: Writing CrashMichaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09730968556503210340noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1657662925997069756.post-45097540330451389382011-01-05T09:12:40.441-08:002011-01-05T09:12:40.441-08:00Oh my God, what a fascinating and revealing note. ...Oh my God, what a fascinating and revealing note. Thanks so much for letting us this far inside your creative process, Mr. Gruber! So sorry to hear about the problems with the novel, but based on your previous work I have a high degree of confidence that you'll rescue the work and end up with another fine novel. I've struggled with the outline-versus-just-writing-it puzzle in my own fictional attempts for years. Glad to read about how a high-level pro does it. Michael GoodwinMichaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02879489487939424908noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1657662925997069756.post-41485570437777772322010-07-15T05:50:12.765-07:002010-07-15T05:50:12.765-07:00Thank you for sharing your process- and how we lov...Thank you for sharing your process- and how we love to fall in love with the creative process- 'so interesting' as you say. I really appreciate all of the road signs to these mini novels or topics you include/uncover in the narrative world-this way to a novel/essay on underworld X. Air and Shadows was wonderful this way- it makes for a richly layered terrain. Maybe you need to write some of those novellas. Good subway/plane/train reading.or the attention span of todays teen... God speedhilaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14672405493708426853noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1657662925997069756.post-29024941892154428362010-07-11T08:59:39.946-07:002010-07-11T08:59:39.946-07:00Sorry about the Tuxedo Man. But after reading you...Sorry about the Tuxedo Man. But after reading your advice to young writers, I see you did exactly what you told the kids to do and deleted the work that was "too brilliant for words". But I am even more interested in your comments on memory. I thought I was the only one who couldn't remember anything from childhood. No matter how hard I try, there are only a few feeble recollections in there and most of those are actually black and white photos. But the few that can't be traced to photos or mother's recollections make me wonder just what made those memories stick? I wait for more...Bookmakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00062150051827026309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1657662925997069756.post-85116345126293716602010-07-05T21:59:51.392-07:002010-07-05T21:59:51.392-07:00So, it sounds like it's not so much fun to wri...So, it sounds like it's not so much fun to write per an outline, even though an acceptable finished product is apparently more easily reached with the outline method, as you say. Is not the production of a tightly structured book part of the reward, as a story with good structure is more satisfying -- it has good bones. Does it add a layer of angst and/or boredom to have to make wholesale revisions to material that was so exciting to write? <br><br>I love all of your books (excepting those written under the Tanenbaum name, which sadly I have not yet read), but especially the Jimmy Paz books -- those you say were written according to a plan. And what of The Book of Air and Shadows? A particular favorite -- written free-form or by outline?Maryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07354481696923980951noreply@blogger.com