Category Archives: Writing

Writing Goals, 2016

Posted on January 5, 2016 by Daniel (@MKNN)

I don’t really believe in goals as a fixed entities. As I am way too fond of saying, any damn fool can have a plan. The key is the re-planning, the adjustments that happen along the way. But I do see … Continue reading →

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Reading Well: Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

Posted on August 18, 2015 by Daniel (@MKNN)

Station Eleven is delightful and complicated and a well-needed antidote to the brutal banality of much post-apocalyptic fiction. Emily St. John Mandel has posited a world where a horrifically virulent disease has wiped out something like 499 of every 500 people. … Continue reading →

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Traiting Places: A Writing Trick that Worked for Me

Posted on July 28, 2015 by Daniel (@MKNN)

Section three of In Time has been the longest, sloggiest sloggy slog I’ve ever worked through. That includes the interminable chapter of my thesis that lasted over a year (at least there I was actively, consciously, and quite effectively avoiding … Continue reading →

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Reading Well: The Painter by Peter Heller

Posted on July 14, 2015 by Daniel (@MKNN)

{This is the first in an occasional series, inspired by the concise brilliance of @TheMovies With PopPop. I am often reluctant to review books, as I don’t want to speak ill of future peers (he said, hopefully). That makes this … Continue reading →

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You Can’t Live in the Songs of People Who Do Not Know Your Name

Posted on June 11, 2015 by Daniel (@MKNN)

The quote–which I love–comes from a comment on Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor’s Dust, which I very much enjoyed. This comes from the always impressive Africa Is A Country folks: http://africasacountry.com/lots-of-little-kenyas-a-conversation-with-yvonne-adhiambo-owuor/ I have not listened to the interview, but I was struck by the … Continue reading →

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Pain & Excitement

Posted on June 9, 2015 by Daniel (@MKNN)

Chapter 3 of In Time has been a slog. It’s been a slog because, fundamentally, I kne/ow that something was very wrong with it. It was too slow, too drunk, and too unclear in getting Elliot acting on his primary motivations. … Continue reading →

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Two Down, Said Sisyphus

Posted on October 23, 2013 by Daniel (@MKNN)

This morning, I finished chapter two of In Time (working title only). Finished is an odd word: the chapters are in what I call roughs, meaning they are barely fit for consumption, and I would suspect bear little resemblance to whatever their … Continue reading →

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Earth Matters: The Post

Posted on September 15, 2013 by Daniel (@MKNN)

I’ve been asked by a few people if my thesis was available online. Now, it is. Earth Matters [The Whole Shebang] Currently, I think the total population who have claimed to read it is fewer than a half-dozen. I can’t … Continue reading →

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