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David J Brown / Joe Murphy
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DAVID J BROWN
Gerald and the Soul Doctor (Nemo 3)
How I am getting on:
Moving permanently to the States, and taking my existing day job with me, and getting used to the 140-mile round-trip daily commute after a five-minute walk in London, and getting married again, and - and - and... have all meant that creative writing, never for long on a front burner, has gone right to the back again, I'm sorry to say. That's unless you regard preparing a new edition of a book about bridges (http://tinyurl.com/k226w) as being creative, which I sort-of-do-in-a-way-but-not-really. To be honest, I am currently more moved to write poetry that no-one ever sees than fiction, while if I have a personal project that excites me it's the possibilty that has just popped up of hosting a classical music programme on a local radio station.
What difference did getting published in Nemo make?
Validation validation validation. Having never had any fiction published before, it made a huge difference to know that someone at least thought something I had written was worth putting in print. But one swallow does not a summer make. The goblin that's always sat on my shoulder is the one that whispers "plenty of people have said the same thing, and better, so why bother?" Dunno how to kick him off. On the other hand, as Brahms said when someone pointed out that the big tune in the finale of his First Symphony was not unlike Beethoven's in the finale of his Ninth, "any ass can see that", but I'm not Brahms.
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JOE MURPHY
The two stories, "Insanity Over Creamer's Field" in Nemo 3, and "Nocturne for Doghands" in Nemo 4, allowed for brief glimpses into places that are preferable to the mundane world I'm forced to inhabit. I've published a few things since then but the Nemo stories were the most fun. Fun is important. Life just doesn't have enough fun in it -- at least not mine.
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DES ADDS:
Those two stories by Joe Murphy -- in the same way as 'The Vanishing Life and Films Of Emmanuel Escobada' or 'George The Baker' (neither of which Joe wrote) -- struck me with an enormous side-swipe when reading them as submissions. I like to think that only 'Nemonymous' could have published such artful quirkinesses - and I mean that very positively on behalf of the stories because it was Nemo's privilege to do so. And I don't comment thus individually on certain stories to withdraw any support from the stories about which I make no special comment. *All* stories that Nemo published are, of course, very special to me and, hopefully, to others. And remember, any writer's life is either pre-Nemo or post-Nemo. :-)
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DAVID J BROWN
Gerald and the Soul Doctor (Nemo 3)
How I am getting on:
Moving permanently to the States, and taking my existing day job with me, and getting used to the 140-mile round-trip daily commute after a five-minute walk in London, and getting married again, and - and - and... have all meant that creative writing, never for long on a front burner, has gone right to the back again, I'm sorry to say. That's unless you regard preparing a new edition of a book about bridges (http://tinyurl.com/k226w) as being creative, which I sort-of-do-in-a-way-but-not-really. To be honest, I am currently more moved to write poetry that no-one ever sees than fiction, while if I have a personal project that excites me it's the possibilty that has just popped up of hosting a classical music programme on a local radio station.
What difference did getting published in Nemo make?
Validation validation validation. Having never had any fiction published before, it made a huge difference to know that someone at least thought something I had written was worth putting in print. But one swallow does not a summer make. The goblin that's always sat on my shoulder is the one that whispers "plenty of people have said the same thing, and better, so why bother?" Dunno how to kick him off. On the other hand, as Brahms said when someone pointed out that the big tune in the finale of his First Symphony was not unlike Beethoven's in the finale of his Ninth, "any ass can see that", but I'm not Brahms.
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JOE MURPHY
The two stories, "Insanity Over Creamer's Field" in Nemo 3, and "Nocturne for Doghands" in Nemo 4, allowed for brief glimpses into places that are preferable to the mundane world I'm forced to inhabit. I've published a few things since then but the Nemo stories were the most fun. Fun is important. Life just doesn't have enough fun in it -- at least not mine.
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DES ADDS:
Those two stories by Joe Murphy -- in the same way as 'The Vanishing Life and Films Of Emmanuel Escobada' or 'George The Baker' (neither of which Joe wrote) -- struck me with an enormous side-swipe when reading them as submissions. I like to think that only 'Nemonymous' could have published such artful quirkinesses - and I mean that very positively on behalf of the stories because it was Nemo's privilege to do so. And I don't comment thus individually on certain stories to withdraw any support from the stories about which I make no special comment. *All* stories that Nemo published are, of course, very special to me and, hopefully, to others. And remember, any writer's life is either pre-Nemo or post-Nemo. :-)
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