Mr. Morton knows too much to be taken in by the myth of the New York intellectual. His characters are often writers themselves, but they tend to be failed and forgotten — like Leonard Schiller, the aging novelist in “Starting Out in the Evening” — or helplessly exploitative, like Nora in “A Window Across the River,” who describes herself as an emotional cannibal.
The last few months I’ve been working on a project called, Wildhorse. So far it’s turning into a collection of short stories which are vaguely connected by way of location, and different characters that are loosely connected to each other over a period of four generations.
The stories range anywhere from the 12,000 word range to about 2,000 words.
The first story, which is titled Walking With Rosa, is in a fourth draft and is near completion. You know how it is; you do a draft, let a couple of people read it, get good advice—thanks, Justin—and then you put it away. I’ve put this one away three times now. I will say that I’m comfortable enough to post some excerpts, though.
Other titles that are in various stages of completion are: Wildhorse(third draft), Blue Horizon(second draft), and Little Whiskey And The Cave Of Life(first draft).
Other than posting some excerpts here, I have no idea of what I’ll do with these stories. Right now, I’m concentrating on finishing the damn thing.
In the few short days that I’ve had this web site up and running, I’ve already received a few comments and some e-mails. I’m impressed with the warmness of the people I’ve heard from in the writer’s blogosphere. It’s quite a far-cry from my other site—which I will not link to. Not that I’m trying to distance myself from it. Well, actually, I am trying to distance this blog from it. In fact, I’m thinking that this post will be the last reference to my other blog on this site, ever.
This blog is here for completely different reasons than my other site. Is it work and play, play and work? I don’t know.
Anyway, that’s the way it is.
Trying to buck the trend.
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