Comments on: Elephants and Online Fiction: An Interview with Michael Czyzniejewski http://fictionwritersreview.com/interviews/online-fiction-and-elephants-in-our-bedroom-an-interview-with-michael-czyzniejewski fiction matters Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:02:27 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: Jonathan http://fictionwritersreview.com/interviews/online-fiction-and-elephants-in-our-bedroom-an-interview-with-michael-czyzniejewski/comment-page-1#comment-3376 Jonathan Thu, 14 Jan 2010 00:06:31 +0000 http://fictionwritersreview.com/?p=6156#comment-3376 Thanks for this wonderful interview. I appreciate Michael's candor and the nature of the questions. As an aspiring writer, I love to see what kind of writing grabs an editor's attention. In particular, I loved this: "Why would you create a character and go to the bother of writing a story if the story isn’t about this character’s most interesting, conflicted day of their life?" Nice. Thanks for this wonderful interview. I appreciate Michael’s candor and the nature of the questions. As an aspiring writer, I love to see what kind of writing grabs an editor’s attention. In particular, I loved this:
“Why would you create a character and go to the bother of writing a story if the story isn’t about this character’s most interesting, conflicted day of their life?”
Nice.

]]> By: david erlewine http://fictionwritersreview.com/interviews/online-fiction-and-elephants-in-our-bedroom-an-interview-with-michael-czyzniejewski/comment-page-1#comment-3373 david erlewine Wed, 13 Jan 2010 13:46:44 +0000 http://fictionwritersreview.com/?p=6156#comment-3373 Oh, and it would have been great to have at least one Silence of the Lambs question. I mean, Calumet City, come on! Even if the movie is 20 years old, that never gets old. Oh, and it would have been great to have at least one Silence of the Lambs question. I mean, Calumet City, come on! Even if the movie is 20 years old, that never gets old.

]]> By: david erlewine http://fictionwritersreview.com/interviews/online-fiction-and-elephants-in-our-bedroom-an-interview-with-michael-czyzniejewski/comment-page-1#comment-3372 david erlewine Wed, 13 Jan 2010 12:44:26 +0000 http://fictionwritersreview.com/?p=6156#comment-3372 really enjoyed this. i graduated college the same year as the author. i went to law school instead of getting my mfa, which i really was close to going for. i feel really sad now, seeing how our lives have turned out. i'd like to work for the cubs, shit i'd work for the white sox. the SLQ piece is great "The trick is not to feel bad about not doing something, to try to move on, write the next day and stick with your routine. If you want to write, you’ll write, and if you don’t, you won’t. Writer’s block doesn’t exist—it’s just being lazy or not caring." Really like this quote. I need to love it, embrace it, mount it above my writing area. really enjoyed this. i graduated college the same year as the author. i went to law school instead of getting my mfa, which i really was close to going for. i feel really sad now, seeing how our lives have turned out. i’d like to work for the cubs, shit i’d work for the white sox.

the SLQ piece is great

“The trick is not to feel bad about not doing something, to try to move on, write the next day and stick with your routine. If you want to write, you’ll write, and if you don’t, you won’t. Writer’s block doesn’t exist—it’s just being lazy or not caring.” Really like this quote. I need to love it, embrace it, mount it above my writing area.

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