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Online diary of Karl Jones for Friday May 18, 2018.
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A Study in Diesel
"A Study in Diesel" by Jeremy japhroaig.
Jeremy (user name japhroaig at Boing Boing) contacted me (March 2017) about what I would charge to edit his writing (he'd liked my humorous Boing Boing posts).
He sent this link to him reading a short work "Burn Pile":
And a message:
Outcome: a novel Requirements: bawdy, mostly true, and told in the voice of a campfire story or parable Testing requirements: none Success requirements: getting published What I need from a partner:
This is the hardest bit. If I smoked, imagine me taking a hard pull from a camel on a rainy evening, at the corner of a diner in Philadelphia. While Tom Waits 'Real Gone' is playing.
I need the noir the stories I have to be published, but end them with hope and optimism, and ironically fill them with color. And that is where a cowriter, partner comes in.
Of course I write in pencil, cause as my friends say I am, "such a damned hipster" :). This is a very quick link to one story I'd like to improve, and recorded after a strong beer.