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Net Worth
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March 24, 2013 by Marcus Speh (Birkenkrahe)

Readers of my posts or my fiction may think that I am all over the place mentally, emotionally, procedurally…nothing could …
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Category: Facebook, The Picture Goers, TYFYS, Writerly Advice | Tags: blog, Communication, creativity, facebook, forum, google, interview, marcusspeh, network, podcast, post, quote, readers, tumblr, twitter, TYFYS, value-add, writing
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
How to be lazy in 10 steps
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September 5, 2012 by Marcus Speh (Birkenkrahe)

I am now looking forward to 3 weeks of freedom from academic freedom. I feel like a broken record drifting …
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Category: 100 Days Of Summer, Goings-on, Writerly Advice | Tags: 100 days 2012, attitude, editing, habits, laziness, writing
Caught in the Crossfire: Moments of Truth
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June 1, 2012 by Marcus Speh (Birkenkrahe)

(Julie O’Yang is a writer and visual artist from Amsterdam. We recently met on the back of a virtual napkin for an hour of literary courting. The result was this cross-fire discussion ranging from Art to Amsterdam and from Butterfly (also the title of Julie’s last novel) to Bejing. …

Category: Carnival, Guest Post, Interview | Tags: Blake, butterfly, crossfire, DNA, duchamp, food, Gardner, interview, Julie O'Yang, Robots, writing
The New Zealand Chronicles
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January 28, 2012 by Marcus Speh (Birkenkrahe)

I’m going to change a few things with this post: I will (try to) adhere to proper capitalization. I will …
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Category: Carnival, Memoir | Tags: 2012, Aotearoa, Art Deco, Asimov, Auckland, Blogfest, Foundation, Frankfurt, Grey Lynn, Neptun, New Zealand, Odysseus, piano, Poseidon, Shell Centre, Shortland Street, Sparta, Strangers, Tuarangi Road, writer, writing
Death. Decay. Doom.
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December 29, 2011 by Marcus Speh (Birkenkrahe)

A few years ago, I missed my dad’s death by a few hours. I had business not far from his …
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Category: Goings-on | Tags: 2011, 48, Airline Reading, birthday, C G Jung, Cronenberg, death, decay, diddly-squat, Dogzplot, doom, Fatboy Review, fiction, flash, Letras Caseras, literature, Necessary Fiction, Northville Review, publishing, Sigmund Freud, Taffimai Metallumai, The Rumpus, Tom Cruise, writing
What makes good writing?
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October 22, 2011 by Marcus Speh (Birkenkrahe)

…. is one of the question discussed at Fictionaut in a thread on the “Philosophy Of Writing“. There were many …
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Category: Commentary, Question, Writerly Advice | Tags: abyss, camus, China, creation, entertainment, fictionaut, Freud, Gardner, Ghaddafi, morality, Philosophy, writing
«The Writer as Recluse?»
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September 10, 2011 by Marcus Speh (Birkenkrahe)

Under this title, James Lloyd Davis recently asked a bunch of interesting questions in a post at Fictionaut, pointing out that …
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Category: Commentary, Writerly Advice | Tags: Charles Dickens, Cormac McCarthy, fictionaut, J D Salinger, James Joyce, james lloyd davis, John Gardner, Recluse, Thomas Pynchon, writer, writing
Blogging For Writers – A Grammar
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August 7, 2011 by Marcus Speh (Birkenkrahe)

“A grammar has been called a list of what is to be done with it.” –Gertrude Stein, How To Write …
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Category: Guest Post, Writerly Advice | Tags: blog, facebook, gertrude stein, grammar, how to write, journalism, lascaux, process, social media, the view from here, tips, twitter, writing
What I Expect From My Literary Agent
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August 6, 2011 by Marcus Speh (Birkenkrahe)

I woke up with an odd line in my head: “My [literary] agent must be ugly and effective.” I didn’t even …
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Category: Commentary, Goings-on, Writerly Advice | Tags: Agent, beach, disintermediation, effective, Internet, Literary Agent, Picasso, Publicist, Publisher, publishing, ugly, 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.