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How to start a novel
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December 9, 2012 by Marcus Speh (Birkenkrahe)

“The world is very big.” Writer and musician Stephen Hastings-King (SHK) said this in a recent discussion on Fictionaut titled “starting …
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Category: Commentary, Goings-on, Guest Post, Interview, Writerly Advice | Tags: facebook, fictionaut, flash, formalism, Gaston Bachelard, novel, outline, Plato, political, Rene Girard, sebald, Sigmund Freud, spiritual, Stephen Hastings-King, Tyler Findlay, writing
“What Is The Best Writing Advice You Actually Follow”
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September 12, 2011 by Marcus Speh (Birkenkrahe)

I keep picking the juiciest berries from online conversations elsewhere and lug them here. This stimulating question was asked by Kathryn …
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Category: Commentary, Goings-on | Tags: Collection, Flash Fiction, John Gardner, novel, Novelist, publishing, red lemonade, writer
7 Weird Ways To Nurture Your Writing At The Start
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August 5, 2011 by Marcus Speh (Birkenkrahe)

I’m giving myself some advice on the tandem of plotting & writing first draft, which I’m currently engaged in. As …
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Category: Goings-on, Writerly Advice | Tags: dance, energy, illustration, long form, mindmap, novel, plot, prompt, structure, tree, waldorf school, writing
RAISING THE WIND
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June 16, 2011 by Marcus Speh (Birkenkrahe)

For the fantastic Bloomsday project, “Ulysses Meets Twitter 2011“, organised by Stephen Cole, every one of a “brave cast” of …
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Category: Metafiction, The Picture Goers | Tags: 16 June 2011, 20th century, @11ysses, aeolus, art, Baltimore, Bloomsday, focus, joyce, novel, Ulysses, wind
Falling Into Hugeness
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November 28, 2010 by Marcus Speh (Birkenkrahe)

Dear accidental reader, be careful now: this is strictly for writers. It’s not called ‘Falling Into Hugeness‘ for no reason …
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Category: Metafiction, Writerly Advice | Tags: Hugeness, Illumination, novel, Ozick, Reader, Riddle, writer, writing
Hate and Love Lists
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October 2, 2010 by Marcus Speh (Birkenkrahe)

I’m an obsessive list maker. The secret with any list, long or short is of course to value the making …
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Category: Goings-on, Tools | Tags: advice, character, friends, hate, lists, love, novel, plot, writing
Writing from a cramped position
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September 4, 2010 by Marcus Speh (Birkenkrahe)

About structuring your novel using fancy tools and about finding someone or something to blame if you don’t write.

Category: Tools | Tags: American Gods, Germany, Neil Gaiman, novel, Proust, Sand, Sci-Fi, Swann, Tinderbox, Ulysses, wikipedia
A new beginning
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June 24, 2010 by Marcus Speh (Birkenkrahe)

I haven’t come round to writing blog posts yet since the whole point of retracting from the net was to …
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Category: Goings-on | Tags: absence, community, elvy, fiction, flash, Flawnt, interview, networking, novel, serious, Speh, stein, voices, writer, writing

(Birkenkrahe) — Storyteller & Professor

I am German writer who lives in Berlin. My short fiction has been published in elimae, Mad Hatter's Review, kill author, PANK and elsewhere. First published in 2009 at Metazen, I've been nominated for a Micro Award, two Pushcart Prizes, two Best of the Net awards and two Million Writers Awards, and a novella of mine was longlisted for the Paris Literary Prize. My short fiction collection "Thank You For Your Sperm" is published in 2013 by MadHat Press. My mosaic novel "Gizella" is forthcoming from Folded Word Press. I have a lush web site at marcusspeh.com (English), I blog on Tumblr und Deutsch auf marcusspeh.de. Join me on Facebook, on Twitter, Pinterest or send me an email.