Jezebel
About a month ago, we posted about Graham Rawle's novel, Woman's World, which he wrote (then rewrote) by clipping words and phrases out of publications from the 1960s. Today, Nerve has an interview with Rawle, in which he details the writing process: "I might have had a sentence like, 'She stormed out of the room,' which then became, 'Red rage rose within her like the mercury in a toffee thermometer until she reached the boiling point of fudge.'... It forced me to be more inventive in the way I constructed sentences." And although the book it's a collage made with scissors and glue, the novel is still a cohesive story. "With the editing process, we had to be as ruthless as you would be with a straight novel. My editor would say, "We should cut chapter thirteen," and I'd have to go, "Okay. Well, that took eight months to make, but that's fine." [Nerve]
Novel Idea
4:30 PM on Tue Mar 18 2008
By Dodai
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See, if I had a toffee thermometer, one day I'd go on a bad binge and break it open.
I like a good hard toffee thermometer in the morning.
was that already a month ago? really? goddamn.
i feel like the tick tocks of time are flying by me like an unkindness of ravens and i am but a lowly scarecrow standing stock-still in my field of empty dreams.
That sounds like a book I'd love to look at and absolutely hate to read.
@BritneyCanadaWhore: That was fucking deep, yo. Also, it feels like it was six months ago to me.
@Neutralize: Agreed. I'm totally gonna buy it anyway.
'Red rage rose within her like the mercury in a toffee thermometer until she reached the boiling point of fudge.'...
Why would a toffee thermometer have mercury in it? That makes about as much sense as this unabomber's 'novel'.
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