Joseph Patrick Pascale
Maxine Hong Kingston: Physical Writing Process
"Instead of a woman warrior with a sword, I could create one with a pen who would be just as dramatic." - Maxine Hong Kingston From...
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Joseph Patrick Pascale
Oct 2, 20173 min read
Octavia Butler: Physical Writing Process
Inspiring Oneself Octavia Butler's groundbreaking writing continues to captivate readers as they rethink humanity and society through the...
Joseph Patrick Pascale
Sep 25, 20177 min read
Dalton Trumbo: Physical Writing Process
Writing in the Bathtub & the Duality of Screenwriter-Novelist Dalton Trumbo liked to write while he was in the bathtub. I wouldn’t say...
Joseph Patrick Pascale
Sep 4, 20175 min read
Jack Kerouac's Original On the Road Scroll
The American Writers' Museum's First Exhibit Features the legendary scroll manuscript of Kerouac's classic American novel. I first read...
Joseph Patrick Pascale
Aug 28, 20176 min read
George R. R. Martin: Writer's Block
"My dream chronology is that the books finish first, and I do have a considerable lead over them," George R. R. Martin said in 2013,...
Joseph Patrick Pascale
Aug 25, 20144 min read
Donna Tartt: Physical Writing Process
Literary Talismans Literature as we tend to conceive of it exists in the realm of the mind, represented by little markings that are...
Joseph Patrick Pascale
Apr 27, 20142 min read
Know Thyself, but be open to new ideas
Note: I’m part of a small writing guild called Scrawl. This is an excerpt from an issue of the Scrawl newsletter. For various reasons,...
Joseph Patrick Pascale
Jun 5, 20114 min read
Franz Kafka: Physical Writing Process
Quartered Onionskin Paper & My Own Blue Notebooks There’s an episode fairly late in Kafka’s life, September 1917 to April 1918, when his...
Joseph Patrick Pascale
May 15, 20113 min read
Joyce & Borges: Physical Writing Process
The Physical Writing Process: James Joyce & Jorge Luis Borges - Writing With Eye Trouble I have the impression that the most iconic...
Joseph Patrick Pascale
May 9, 20114 min read
Jonathan Franzen: Physical Writing Process
Destroy the Internet In a recent post I wrote, “I tend to type my novels directly into GoogleDocs so that they are constantly backed up...
Joseph Patrick Pascale
May 2, 20113 min read
Neal Stephenson: Physical Writing Process
Fountain Pen and Malfunctioning Typewriter Neal Stephenson started out writing on a typewriter, but when he began work on The Baroque...
Joseph Patrick Pascale
Apr 28, 20113 min read
William Gibson: Physical Writing Process
The Cyberpunk Future was Written on Hemingway’s Typewriter In my abandoned, unfinished novel RPGs Aren’t Censored, a character says, “The...
Joseph Patrick Pascale
Apr 25, 20114 min read
Jack Kerouac: Physical Writing Process
Whenever I encounter tales of the way writers physically sit down to write one of their books, I’m always fascinated. I like to imagine...
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