Thank you Ben. Really happy you mentioned the opening line, because I've been reading some pathetic openers on Substack lately. I realize that a wilted salad doesn't mean the main course will suck, but I'm busy. I can't invest time in a story if I don't think the author put some effort into it, and a weak, pedestrian lead always gives me that fear.
This is good. Kinda makes me sad. One of my best friends was diagnosed with schizophrenia when she was about 45. I love her and it’s weird this act I put on when I’m with her sometimes. It doesn’t do any good to go against the things she’s saying. It’s her reality against mine. Probably a toss up.
Gotta be really painful at times. I played a paranoid schizophrenic in Going to the Top. Worked very hard to make the person real and not a caricature, though the production did push the edges of that.
Thank you Ben. Really happy you mentioned the opening line, because I've been reading some pathetic openers on Substack lately. I realize that a wilted salad doesn't mean the main course will suck, but I'm busy. I can't invest time in a story if I don't think the author put some effort into it, and a weak, pedestrian lead always gives me that fear.
This is really, really good.
Thank you. It may reflect the personal duress under which it was written. ( Most of that duress self inflicted )
What the word « terror » is meant to convey. Profoundly so right here.
Love that the terror took the spotlight
Had me by the throat tbh
This is good. Kinda makes me sad. One of my best friends was diagnosed with schizophrenia when she was about 45. I love her and it’s weird this act I put on when I’m with her sometimes. It doesn’t do any good to go against the things she’s saying. It’s her reality against mine. Probably a toss up.
Gotta be really painful at times. I played a paranoid schizophrenic in Going to the Top. Worked very hard to make the person real and not a caricature, though the production did push the edges of that.
Accommodating crazy is one thing.
Giving it power is crazy.
Excellent story.
A real keeper.
I guess I gotta do another book even though the first one isn't flying out of warehouses anywhere but Detroit.
Really nice.
Fiction and truth well captured at the same time.