August 17-21
August 17.
We watch the driver’s hands on the turns and chicanes rather than on the straights.
August 18.
Machiavel struggles in primitive societies—he is not just duplicitous but legalistic—uses the system for his own ends.
August 19.
My kind of writing: terse, bleak, Tacitean.
August 20.
How much of my worldview was shaped by Gen X public schoolboys.
August 21.
Your privilege as a novelist (even as a hardboilist)—to narrate. Focus on transition from narration to scene and scene to narration.
