How To Write An Urban Novel

Feb 10, 2006 16:48

It's mean, but the subject had it coming.

HOW TO PRODUCE AN URBAN NOVEL(Preamble ( Read more... )

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revsaintmichael February 11 2006, 18:07:49 UTC
hot and wet prison wash rag coated with melted Vaseline

I think I just found the title for my next chapbook.

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scottwoods February 11 2006, 18:39:58 UTC
I know, right? I mean, it's taken, but something like it.

Ugh.

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thatpoetrykid February 11 2006, 21:16:57 UTC
Where you are getting paid by the word mounting a 1300-R Suzuki Hayabusas with gold spokes and red trim on the leather-back seats just makes more cents (and dollars too) than dude got on his bike.

Endorsements too are dollars in the bank. If the book stinks doesn't that reflect badly on the ones who endorse it?

Third verse, same as the first. Marketing sells books. I've got nothing against that.

Being a bad writer, well, there are more pencils than James Baldwins. If publishers only released well written books well stocked bookstores could be opened in old photomat booths.

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I'm going in on the Filipino version of this genre conditionbronze November 24 2010, 21:00:54 UTC
F* this poetry crap! I'm gonna make Filipino versions of this stuff

My first novel will be called "Saltier than Bagoong"

Summary: Nonoy is a street tough who never goes anywhere without his trusty balisong knife. After stabbing the mayor's son, he escapes to the United States where he meets Charmane, a strip dancer at the Century Club, who helps him to come to grips with his past, while Nonoy finds himself embroiled in a life or death battle to free her from her pimp, Manila Ray.

Here's an excerpt.

"Nonoy took Charmane by her soft delicate hand and told her a life without her would be like a meal without rice. He then took out his dick and told her, he was going to make her breakfast in bed. He was supplying the Longanisa, and her, the eggs."

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