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Bob Shacochis
American
Novelist
Born:
Sep 9
,
1951
Best
Myself
Sense
World
Writing
You
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I consider myself a writer who writes about American expatriates. And if I have any overt cause as a writer besides writing the best prose I can, it's to try to make Americans have a more visceral feeling about how America impacts everybody in the world.
Bob Shacochis
Best
Myself
Writing
World
Cause
Try
Feeling
Everybody
Consider
Visceral
Besides
Impacts
About
More
Writer
Writes
Prose
Make
How
America
American
Any
Who
When you meet powerful men or just read about them in the newspapers, you see that they don't have a sense of boundaries.
Bob Shacochis
You
Men
Sense
Meet
See
About
Powerful
Boundaries
Read
Just
Them
Newspapers
You decide which characters you want and then do the best you can to bring their humanity to the forefront in the context that you place them in - the crises in which you've placed them.
Bob Shacochis
Best
You
Humanity
Crises
Characters
Forefront
Context
Want
Decide
Place
Which
Placed
Them
Then
Bring
A whole bunch of agents and editors looked at my stories, and they all said, in effect, 'You're a pretty good writer and you should probably get these published; when you grow up and write a novel, get in touch.'
Bob Shacochis
Good
You
Pretty
Pretty Good
Touch
Write
Writer
Good Writer
Looked
Said
Editors
Effect
Up
Bunch
Get
Stories
Agents
Should
Whole
Novel
Grow
Grow Up
Published
The stories are there first, and they come from my experiences wandering around in the world. They will resonate into bigger things, forces sweeping the planet, themes and archetypes, but I'm not smart enough to have lucid integration of all that in my head as I'm writing.
Bob Shacochis
Writing
World
Smart
Resonate
Will
First
Enough
Archetypes
Head
Come
Forces
Around
Integration
Wandering
Experiences
Stories
Bigger
Themes
Planet
Sweeping
Lucid
Things
Trying to get the sentences right and the structure of the narration right is about as big a job as I can handle. But I also know that if you handle that job properly, everything else just clicks into place.
Bob Shacochis
You
Job
Big
Else
Everything
Everything Else
About
Properly
Structure
Know
Also
Clicks
Narration
Handle
Get
Trying
Just
Place
Sentences
Right
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