Many writers have influenced how I write. Vonnegut taught me about perspective, Hesse taught me character development. M�rquez taught me the importance of painting the reader into the moment. Dialogue is trickier, because my sense of it came from someone I don’t know all that well. What I can say is that it came from “The Rockford Files”.
Monthly Archives: August 2007
Stock Marks, not Market
I admit it, I’m something of a perma-bear when it comes to the stock market. I believe that any time you put your money into something you cannot see, there is the potential for abuse. Multiply that by hundreds of millions of people investing hundreds of thousands of dollars, and eventually there will have to be an enormous scandal.
Novel Writing
I’ve been involved with a number of discussions on the publishing industry and what it means for writers lately. They’ve been tough fights with writers and people from the industry getting quite emotional. I’d like to do my best to discuss the problem without getting carried away.
Stupid Money
Last Friday, the Fed made $35 billion available to large investment banks to make overnight, low interest loans. This is a direct injection of cash into the investment world, and something just short of a sign of panic. The last time this was done was immediately after 9/11.
Crappy Cars
Like many good things in life, it happened both on purpose and by accident. I consider it a side effect of being a father, more than anything.
After years of car-free bliss, riding the bus where I had to, my (now ex) wife told me it was time to have a car. What with the baby on the way and all the running around like scared gophers that goes with it, something had to happen. Like many of her announcements, it came with a plan – did I mention we aren’t married anymore? This plan involved a friend with a 1985 Escort that had been parked for a while. The deal was this – $100 if I could get it running. And, in about a half an hour, I did (ignition wires were shot, is all).
Barataria - The work of Erik Hare 