HeyJaredRoz Morris
Author, editor, book doctor, ghostwriter. Owner of a worried Irish horse. A personal newsletter about doing all that in the real world.
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These books don’t exist (opens the original)
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We live in a series and sequels world. I hadn’t quite registered this until I guested on a podcast and the host remarked, ‘Your novels are standalones, aren’t they’? He said it as though ‘standalones’ - stories that are not part of a series - were unusual. Yes, my books definitely are standalones, and his remark made me wonder about the whole business of stories that seem go on for ever. Some are great. Some are tortuous. What makes the difference? <div class="pre
The Blue Woman and other tales (opens the original)
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Some cheek, some curiosity, and one day... (opens the original)
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As soon as we learn we love to read, we are teaching ourselves to write (opens the original)
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Honestly, we make it up (opens the original)
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This post began at a dinner party, in a conversation with a respected professor of English. It made me remember how my own English degree treated literature as a process of evolution, where one writer’s work influenced those that came after, and those that came after that. While obviously we all learn from each other, where does invention sit in this pattern? Especially the unique brilliance of some of the poets, dramatists and novelists who have given us our most enduring stories and characters
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