The Writing Life: The Floodgates Open
Since I had taken this new approach to how I was going to start writing, the ideas began coming at me a mile a minute. Not fully fleshed out ideas, but ideas nevertheless. Each time one would hit me, I’d write More...
The Writing Life: Turning Point
This entry is part 13 in the series The Writing Life2008 was pretty much spent in some kind of creative limbo, at least as far as my poetry and fiction writing was concerned. I had nothing to bring to the table. More...
The Writing Life: Floundering
This entry is part 11 in the series The Writing Life2006 was virtually unproductive. I hardly wrote anything, save for a couple of poems which I really didn’t do much with. I struggled with the new novel, which More...
The Writing Life: Struggling For a New Idea
This entry is part 9 in the series The Writing LifeWith the manuscript of “November Rust” in the hands of my friend, I began to get to work on this new idea that I had been toying around with. I had this vague More...
The Writing Life: The Last Straw
This entry is part 10 in the series The Writing LifeWith the first draft of the novel now done, I decided to let it sit for a while, then go back to it with a fresh pair of eyes later on and get to work on cutting More...
The Writing Life: Finally!
This entry is part 7 in the series The Writing Life[media-credit name="Image Bank" align="alignleft" width="300"][/media-credit] It was one of those quite Sunday afternoons in the early Spring 2003. I was working More...
The Writing Life: Getting Down to Business
This entry is part 3 in the series The Writing LifeThe origins of my first novel, “November Rust”, began as an experiment. I just started writing, without any clear idea as to what the hell the thing was going More...
Author Interview – Julian Gallo, Naderia
“Maybe we are all deluding ourselves into thinking that life has any meaning at all. Perhaps we have to give it one, for ourselves” – Julian Gallo, Naderia. The above line is one that permeates Julian Gallo’s More...
