The Wrath of Kon

Dispatches, thoughts, and miscellanea from writer Jon Konrath

Tag: writing

  • The Feel of a Book

    I really do wish I could switch to an all-digital book library, buy every print book in this house in some e-book format, and haul all of this shit to the goodwill, or sell it in the Amazon used section.  Someday, books will kill me, and I’m not talking about being buried alive via hoarding.…

  • Fieldstones and Moleskines

    I know I said I don’t do new year resolutions, and I don’t.  But one of the things I’ve been trying to do – it’s more of a course-correction for my post-40 memory loss – is writing down every damn thing that pops in my head, with hopes of later mining this stuff for story…

  • A Hundred Years From That One Rush Album

    I guess I haven’t written in here yet in 2012.  Oops.  I’ve been busy working on getting a new book released, another collection of short stories and flash, and that’s about done.  But it’s been hard to get started on something new, and I really need to. Part of this is that I’m trying to…

  • Force

    I’m trying to force myself to write daily, not just the fiction writing, but some kind of post here, to keep the momentum going, but also to get out of my system this sketching, the rote description of the past and the present, which isn’t the kind of writing I do for stories and books,…

  • Why I am not an indie writer

    I hate the term “Indie Writer”.  Hate it.  Hate all of the variations: indie writer, indie writing, indie books.  It’s one of those terms, like “sammies.”  Any time I am in a restaurant that has the term “sammies” on the menu, I want to burn the fucking place to the ground. Over on Self Publishing…

  • My new book, Fistful of Pizza, is available now

    I am happy to announce that my new book, Fistful of Pizza, is now available at the following places: On the Kindle for only 99 cents here. In print at Lulu.com for $8.74 here. In print at Amazon.com for $12.99 here. Here’s the answers to some questions about this: What is it? Fistful of Pizza is…

  • The Agony of Defeat

    I’m so depressed about the baseball season right now.  The Rockies have catastrophically failed in almost every aspect, and I don’t foresee it getting much better any time soon.  And if they had a bad start, and continued a slump through May, that would be one thing.  But they were leading the division — they…

  • So two comedians walk into a bar

    I wish I was a stand-up comedian. I have trouble saying that, because I feel like the many or most people would reply with “you’re not funny.” And I’ve probably spent a lifetime trying to make other people laugh, and maybe I have, but the only thing that sticks in my mind are the too-serious…

  • Nano 10, and a fleeting attempt at procrastination

    I am participating in NaNoWriMo 2010.  I just decided this, and I have the vaguest of ideas for a book, and I really need to flesh out an outline, but I’m having trouble getting the thoughts into an outline this second, and I’m glad my copy of Call of Duty is not in the house,…

  • Desks, a viewport into the mind

    As a writer, I spend a lot of time at desks.  And I have some strange obsession with the workspaces of writers, which is why I always seem to be snapping pictures of my desks.  And every time I go back and look at it, I can tell the era and the project and the…