ah fuck Burnt Roof and I woke up early to write

[mccutcheon]

So I have been shopping the Burnt Roof novel to a few publishers and I have been getting some good feedback about the writing and all that but it's too short. I wanted it to be a short novel, 200 pages, something people pick up and can't put down, read the whole thing in one night, but the publishers are saying it has to be 75,000-80,000 pages for a first novel of literary fiction. I'm not quite at 50,000 with only about 75 pages left and editing. Back to the character development, to give it that "literary mastication." And my goal was to have it complete this year. I better stop fucking posting so much. I probably have 80,000 plus words on this stupid B.B.

[mccutcheon]

Make that 75,000-80,000 words! Not pages.

[<sarah>]

I don't want to distract you from your work, but have you read the story of o? instead of getting ready for the party or working, both things i need to do -- i just read it, JESUS CHRIST! it's only 200 pages, and it was the first for Reage (whoever she is)

[martino]

well fuck that. they want you to add padding so they can put a higher price on the book. this is another example of how sick the publishing industry is.

[mccutcheon]

I'm with you Martino. But I'm willing to play the game. I've already started going through sections and see where I can add, I am going for light entertainment here, but I don't want to be too lite.

[Sloth]

I think as a general rule books printed today should around 150 pages and sell for 9.95 as a general rule.

And trust me McCutcheon, everybody who reads Burnt Roof is gonna like it. I mean people write in all the time and say its brillant.

Its so Bukowski it makes Bukowski seem like someone else.

[mccutcheon]

It's not Bukowski. But I think of the people who like it and I think of the new version I have now and it does give a few shivers of excitement. I mean it is sooooo much more polished and it has also found direction and knows it's ending. We have mass drama with conflict, conflict, and conflict and of course we got sex, drugs and rock and roll. Trevor fights, is sympathetic. He is a guy you would want to have a beer with and girls would want to fuck. Trevor has girls come to him and he is confused and of course aroused. Bukowski has the same underlying tenderness under his coarse descriptions of women, but my hero is more humane in a naive way. He is yet to be broken down, and refuses to become a bum. He has work ethic, and studies the streets as well as getting an education. If it reaches the same audience as Bukowski and is sold at The City Light bookstore in San Francisco that would be cool. I would love to do a signing there. It would be a cool hipster moment. They have all of Alexander Trochcci, Miller, Bukowski and of course The Beats. But I can&#8217;t get ahead of myself or big headed. At the moment it&#8217;s nothing more than a shallow work in progress. With the creation of art, it&#8217;s not complete or accomplished until it actually happens. No cocaine bravado here, mate. I will bring it to fruition though. I love the bloom.

And don&#8217;t forget Janis&#8217;s tee shirt.

I DON&#8217;T DATE BOYS WHO READ BUKOWSKI

[marky]

Do you ever just go crazy with all these weird
coincidences between things in your life
like a web that seems inconcievable like
when you have these dreams that fortell the
future in some way and then you keep seeing
these coincidences and you don't know why
they're there or how they happened at all
and you just plain don't understand why?

Like cycles of experience.

On the bus...the triangle, the link,
the connection between people and events
in your life.

What has happened to me is this: The
antithesis broke out of the twins and was
born.

I'm at the end of a very long process
in my life now. 8 months long. It looks
to me like a mirror of things further in
the past.

I'm very glad you guys are around and
doing your website and writing
THING that you do because I think it
is very cool. I don't know much about
what Bukowski is like, but I've heard
the name several times and probably
thumbed through it briefly in a bookstore
I remember in Dallas. I don't normally
buy books...I'm too much of a music
head. But I did read Electric Kool Aid
Acid Test a long long time ago because
of a very very good friend of mine who
went on to depart this earth and of
whom I have been thinking of an awful
lot lately. So I'm on the bus damnit!!!

The irony is I AM actually reading a
book right now, which isn't usually the
case: Stu lent me the Nick Drake biography
and I have time to read at work. So far
it's kinda slow though.