Part 1: Just for laughs, I'm reading "Telling Lies for Fun and Profit, A Manual For Fiction Writers" by Lawrence Block. I ran across the book by accident at the library, and checked it out for a lark. It's amusing, and already I'm trying to make a commitment to one page of fiction per day, no matter how awful, on the theory that in one year's time I'll have a complete, awful book.
Part 2: At one point, Block discusses how much money he had made from fiction at the outset, but it's in dollars from when he started his career. For reference, I found an inflation calculator online to see what his wages would be in 2005 dollars.
Part 3: For no discernable reason whatsoever, I click the link at the bottom of the page to see more webpages by the owner of that site. I have no idea why, I figured it'd be economics stuff, put me right to sleep, but this is the internets, and clicking links like trained monkeys is what we do.
Part 4: Turns out the proprietor of that webpage is an author by the name of S Morgan Freeman. A link to his book on amazon reads, "Buy the funniest book on amazon.com". I like funny, so I click that link to see what the book is all about.
Part 5: The book is titled "Overheard in New York", which I've actually heard of. Apparently he's part blogger, part actual author. So I'm reading through the first publisher review on amazon, and the book sounds funny, with a forward by some guy I've never heard of and an introduction by:
Lawrence Block. Whose thirty year old writing manual set me off on this series of completely unrelated links to a new book he wrote the introduction for.
That has to be one of the oddest coincidences I've run across in some time. I guess now I have to buy the New York book, it's fate.
Posted by Francis at April 6, 2006 04:51 AM | TrackBackI read two of Lawrence Block's other books about writing, but not that one. I like his Scudder series and the Bernie Rhodenbarr books.
Posted by: doolz at April 6, 2006 04:34 PMI'm actually a bit of a late comer to Block, I've only read a random few of his books. His style is right up my alley, though, and I'm looking forward to working my way through a good many more of them.
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