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The Proust Questionnaire

February 15, 2023 Christopher Clancy

About two months ago, something like that, I learned about the Proust Questionnaire. As conceived by Marcel Proust—a writer I…

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Posted in: Ephemera, Writing

Top Three Record Stores in Murfreesboro, TN

November 18, 2022 Christopher Clancy

This fall, I have been teaching a course at Middle Tennessee State University (Go Blue Raiders!) called, “Writing for Interactive…

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Posted in: Ephemera

My Dream Journal

April 21, 2022 Christopher Clancy

For those who don’t know what a dream journal is, it’s exactly what it sounds like: a place where you write down your dreams.

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Posted in: Writing Filed under: Carl Jung, dreams, J.E. Cirlot, Oxford comma, symbols

Dry January

February 9, 2022 Christopher Clancy

How did it go? Pretty well. I made it, anyway.

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Posted in: Ephemera Filed under: drinking, Lent, rehab

Goodbye, Social Media

December 20, 2021 Christopher Clancy

It’s one thing to torch people’s time, it’s quite another to torch their faith in humanity.

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Posted in: Ephemera Filed under: Facebook, Hari Kunzru, Maya Grimley, Nicholson Baker, Rebecca Crunden, Twitter

An Honor Just to be Nominated

December 8, 2021 Christopher Clancy

Is getting nominated for a Pushcart Prize something to brag about?

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Posted in: Ephemera, Getting Published Filed under: David Spade, Prescott College, Pushcart Prize, Rachel Yoder, Twitter

Oh, The Places I Went: An Infographic

October 18, 2021 Christopher Clancy

Virginia Woolf said, “A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.”

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Posted in: Ephemera, Writing Filed under: JJ's Market & Cafe, privacy, Virginia Woolf, Walmart, writing

Exposition, the Broccoli of Storytelling

October 7, 2021 Christopher Clancy

How to show readers the ways of your newly created world without making them feel like they’re on the receiving end of an “info dump”?

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Posted in: Writing Filed under: exposition, RPL Writes, Vanderbilt University, Velveeta, worldbuilding, you just don't get it do you

Doppelgängers

June 18, 2021 Christopher Clancy

While marketing my debut novel, We Take Care of Our Own, I have made a couple of unsettling discoveries.

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Posted in: Ephemera Filed under: Austin Macauley Publishers, Bruce Springsteen, Christina Clancy, dopplegangers, Glimmer Train, Jeff Rider

It’s Cover Time

April 20, 2021 Christopher Clancy

Before posting it here, I showed this cover to two people—my wife and an old friend—and on both occasions the first thing out of their mouths was, “What’s that thing in the background?”

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Posted in: Getting Published Filed under: book covers, Canva, Montag Press, perfection

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