What Readers Mean to Me (Excerpt from Can't You Get Along With Anyone?)
This is my best shot at explaining what the Reader means to me. It’s from CYGAWA; it comes about midway through the book:I write these italicized words from the future, after it all went down, after...
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From Part Two, Chapter Two of Can’t You Get Along With Anyone? A Writer’s Memoir, and a Tale of a Lost Surfer’s ParadiseWhich reminds me. During the past eight months, during which I didn’t write...
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An excerpt from Can't You Get Along With Anyone? A Writer's Memoir and a Tale of a Lost Surfer's Paradise...<!--break-->Chapter OneIt circulated for five years, through the halls of fifteen...
View ArticleExcerpt: Author's Note
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<!--break-->Overview | More about the book | Reviews | If you’re a writer | Buy the book | Media infoApril 14, 2006, 4 AM local time. I'm leaving this little Caribbean island on the dawn flight...
View ArticleWriter's Queasy Gut
An excerpt from Can’t You Get Along With Anyone? A Writer’s Memoir, and a Tale of a Lost Surfer’s Paradiseby Allan C. WeisbeckerI well remember the phone call itself, even now as I write from my...
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From Can't You Get Along With Anyone? A Writer's Memoir, and a Tale of a Lost Surfer's Paradiseby Allan C. WeisbeckerI write these italicized words from the future, after it all went down, after all...
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From Can't You Get Along With Anyone? A Writer's Memoir and a Tale of a Lost Surfer's Paradise by Allan WeisbeckerCHAPTER TWELVE People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of...
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From Can't You Get Along With Anyone? A Writer's Memoir, and a Tale of a Lost Surfer's Paradiseby Allan C. WeisbeckerCHAPTER FIVE You call this a movie script? Give me a couple $5,000-a-week writers...
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From Can’t You Get Along With Anyone? A Writer’s Memoir, and a Tale of a Lost Surfer’s Paradise by Allan WeisbeckerCHAPTER TEN There is only one thing that can kill movies and that is education. --Will...
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