Buzzy buzz buzz

Waits and Bukowski (short for the novel I’m writing) got written about right here.

Target Audience

Target Audience Magazine has asked me to wrte an article about this novel and the ebay auction involved.

I am very excited.

Editing

Last night I wrote 600 words, then cut almost 2,000 words that had already been written. That initial paragraph is now something reasonable. It feels tight. I cut about a third of the descriptions of the girl’s pussy. That feels right to me.

Then I watched The Devil’s Rejects and drank Beer.

Chinaski

Bukowski has made his first appearance in the novel. Sort of. Actually, a character mentions having gone to a poetry reading by a guy named Henry Chinaski, but everyone will know what I mean.

This isn’t the fastest I’ve written, but is is coming quickly.

Wrestling stuff is seeping in too.

The Wrestler

This afternoon, as part of the research for the novel, I had a long conversation with a former pro-wrestler. He filled me in on many details and much minutiae of the wrestling biz. I feel like I have a much better understanding of it now.

Barfight

Right now I am mostly making notes, building an outline and working around some problems in my head.

Later tonight I will write between 1,000 and 1,200 words.

Stay tuned for more exciting updates and such.

Plus, watch re-runs of Dexter.

Winner winner chicken dinner

It turns out that the auction winner is cool, and has a great back story.

I wrote the first 1200 words last night. It has flow. It has funky fresh fly grooves. It has tits and pussy and drinking and wrestling. It is gonna fry your brain.

I am excited

The next step

My auction to be a character in my next novel is over. The winner is paying $107.50 (which is more than I thought that I would get). Now there is a lot of work to be done. A lot of work.

The rest is waiting

With 22 hours to go the auction is up to $102.50 (what a strange amount). I made more extensive notes (these would likely make sense to people who are not me). Beyond that, the rest is waiting.

What’s all this then

Tom Waits and Charles Bukowski Fistfight in Hell will be a novel. This novel will contain a character based on the winner of an eBay auction. You can read more about that at http://ebaythenovel.wordpress.com/ or http://nathantyree.wordpress.com/

On this blog I will keep a diary of the process of creating the book at getting it into print. In this first post all I have to offer are some random notes that I have made. They follow:

This is not a remake of rio bravo

Alcoholic loser
dead beat
sex addict
Friend (don’t know him yet- auction still going) tries to save deadbeat
pro wrestling on small scale
tragic back story
camus
sartre
dread
maybe some poems and lists and stuff
first person
henry chinaski shows up. – – maybe they go to a reading
why do I think Tao lin is in this???
road trip?
funeral?
metaphor heavy
lots of sex
some violence
boots
whiskey discussions
defenestration
sindee???
secondary characters behave like ghosts