I had my first radio interview for Name Your Tale Wednesday night. I stayed up past my bedtime to talk to Peter Anthony Holder on Holder Tonight, a talk show in Montreal and Toronto.
The interview lasted a half hour, so I had enough time to wax philosophical about fiction writing. One point I tried to make was that an advantage of writing over other media is that it isn’t limited by technology. I guess that’s not totally true. What I really meant is that if you are a competent writer, you are only limited by your own imagination.
The reason I was so excited to talk about imagination in writing is that I had a great experience pushing myself to be more imaginative earlier that evening. I started noticing a trend in my stories for Name Your Tale. A lot of them were more realistic than my usual stuff, and some were pretty sad. I was afraid I would start bumming people out after a while if I kept it up, so when I started thinking about how to write my version of “I Want Out” for the Thursday Threesome, I started by telling myself “be imaginitive,” which myself interpreted as “write about magicians.”
Here’s that story:
I Want Out
I threaten to reveal the secrets of Devil’s Chest of Drawers and Phillips says Devil’s Chest of Drawers is no longer NCMA-sanctioned and they explained how you do it in a TV show two years ago, anyway, so everyone already knows it.
“Fine,” I say, “I’ll start cursing at parties.”
“We’ll reclassify you. Adult Illusionist.”
“And I’ll take off my pants.”
“Fetish Illusionist – for adults.”
I say, fine, I’ll just stop doing magic then, and Phillips laughs. “Good luck with that,” he says.
I’m not even twenty yards from the front gate when the first dove lands on me.
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Title by: Anonymous
Story by: Nick
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