Look at that compound-complex sentence! And now she’s splitting an infinitive!
Sitting at a coffeehouse or bar or library scribbling in a notebook is one thing. Placing your writer-self on display in a custom designed habit for a month while you try to write a novel is another thing entirely. For the next month at the Flux Factory in Long Island City, NY three writers are participating in NOVEL: A Living Installation. Writers Grant Bailie, Ranbir Sidhu, and Laurie Stone will live in these habitats and try to produce a novel. They will also be keeping weblogs about the experience. There are limited viewing hours every week, and readings from the works-in-progress on Saturday evenings.

I know that I have a difficult enough time writing a short work memo when someone is standing and watching. I couldn’t imagine being on display like a zoo animal while people watched me try to be creative. That’s why I write and don’t play in a band or do anything that requires “performing”. Will the authors be allowed to interact with the crowds who come to see them work? Can they throw wadded up rejected ideas at them?
- posted by Synd-e @ 9:17 AM