Notes from the Nemenator


how to wrestle the ghost of an alcoholic writer
September 25, 2007, 11:32 am
Filed under: getting out of the house

1. write novel. call it blue-eyed apples
2. visit www.kerouacproject.org
3. send www.kerouacproject.org first chapter of said novel.
4. wait.
5. wait some more. quit your job and decide to be a writer with no idea how.
6. go to israel. fall down, visit israeli hospital. receive two stiches.
7. return to new york. get message you’re going to florida. track down board member in paris to say yes, yes, yes.
8. wait two months. do new york summer things. barbeque meat, bicycle rides, design things graphically. celebrate your impending departure everyday for weeks.
9. quit a nice job, break up with a nice boy, and pack your bags. have kleenex on hand.
10. arrive at 1418 clouser avenue, in the college park neighborhood of orlando, florida, fifty years to the day after jack published on the road. bring things. bring many things. some blunt, heavy objects to hit ghosts with, like baritone saxophones and gombrich’s story of art.


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An impressively succinct list that tells a larger story. Wow. I sure hope this is a recipe for success because I’m going to try it, myself, for a graphic novel at the Kerouac House. We’ll see if it works out as lovely — er, or rather, as eventually lovely — as it did for you. Cheers, Miss Emily!

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