{"id":8263,"date":"2011-08-18T12:29:28","date_gmt":"2011-08-18T16:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/?p=8263"},"modified":"2011-08-18T12:29:28","modified_gmt":"2011-08-18T16:29:28","slug":"looking-for-a-writing-prompt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/looking-for-a-writing-prompt\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking for a Writing Prompt?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Long-time\u00a0RAMH<\/em>\u00a0friend Marta has started a new blog. It’s based on something other writers may have thought, from time to time: I bet in another world I’d be appreciated more than I am in this one…!<\/em><\/p>\n

Marta’s taken it a step further: writing the blog as if her famous-mirror-counterpart — called simply “M.” — were writing it.<\/p>\n[In the following paragraph, both “M.” and “Marta” are fictional characters. “Marta” may be based on the real Marta, but there are probably points of difference, too.]\n

The entries so far have described how she, Marta, first learned of the existence of M.: the arrival — obviously through some rupture in the space-time continuum — of a fan letter, to M.<\/em>, in response to the latter’s most recently published title. An interesting twist: M.’s book is not a book which Marta never heard of. It’s from one of Marta’s own manuscripts, which she hasn’t yet shown to anyone<\/em>. M. has also done usual blog-type posts, given that she’s a blindingly successful novelist of course. In the most recent, she recounts how her editor has helped her shop for a place to live on what appear to be the streets of Greenwich Village. And she’s acquired a stalker.<\/p>\n

Marta — the real one — is enlisting interested readers and writers in creating the new blog. She’s called for them to write fan (or other) letters to M., as if they were people who know (of) her in this alternate universe… real letters, preferably handwritten (real-world Marta seems to love all paper artifacts).<\/p>\n

To participate, just drop her a line via the comments at that new blog — called\u00a0Famous in Another Universe<\/em>, btw — or at her regular place, writing in the water<\/a><\/em>,\u00a0and she’ll work out the details with you.<\/p>\n

And of course, taking part in this project or not, you may enjoy just reading along as it grows. Start here<\/a>\u00a0(the post called “The Wormhole and the Envelope”) and just click the “next post” links below each entry.<\/p>\n

________________________<\/p>\n

P.S. I haven’t cleared any of the above with Marta, so for any number of reasons this post may not hang around for long. :)<\/p>\n

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