Tag: writing skills

• Slipstream: Feeling Very Strange

  Coming soon: More of my notes on Thomas Pynchon, Steve Aylett, and Charles Wadsworth Camp, but check this out! From Science Fiction Studies, a fantastic Special Issue on Slipstream, edited by Rob Latham, who begins by saying: In July 1989, in his “Catscan” column in the fanzine SF Eye, Bruce Sterling published an essay entitled “Slipstream.”…

  Bill Ectric

  March 3, 2011

  Bruce Sterling, Feeling Very Strange: The Slipstream Anthology, Interstitial Fiction, James Patrick Kelly, John Kessel, Kathy Acker, literary criticism, metafiction, New Wave Fabulism, Nova Express, Rob Latham, science fiction studies, SF Eye, slipstream, The New Weird, writing, writing skills

• The Charles Wadsworth Camp Mystery

  The following is an edited collection of my various blog entries on Charles Wadsworth Camp, all brought together in one place for easier access. The “mystery” lies in this question: Is Charles Wadsworth Camp’s minimal internet presence due to lack of interest in his work, or is the lack of interest due to his minimal internet presence? “No one,”…

  Bill Ectric

  May 30, 2010

  beaches area historical society, Bion Barnett, Charles Wadsworth Camp, Donald J. Mabry, Jacksonville FL, Jacksonville Historical Society, Madeleine Hall Barnett, Madeleine L’Engle, The Abandoned Room, The Gray Mask, Wadsworth Camp, World’s Finest Beach, writing, writing skills

• The Golden Notebook Project

  This is the kind of thing Bill Ectric’s Place was originally created for and I’m happy to have stumbled upon it like a treasure hidden right under my nose (which is almost always how it happens with me). From Doris Lessing, A Retrospective , here is The Golden Notebook Project,  in which seven women are reading the The Golden Notebook…

  Bill Ectric

  May 20, 2010

  book study, Doris Lessing, Ecclesiastes, The Golden Notebook, writing, writing skills

• Fine Lines

  I suppose my recent cut-up experiment is more about marketing than writing. It’s certainly easier to write a cut-up than it is to get someone to read it, but I don’t want to trick anyone into reading something that isn’t any good. Quality should always come first. One should believe they have a product of…

  Bill Ectric

  November 16, 2009

  Booklife, cut up writing, cut-up, Cut-ups, Finch, Jeff Vandermeer, Jessa Crispin, marketing, RealityStudio, William S. Burroughs, writing, writing skills