{"id":1083,"date":"2010-05-11T06:00:13","date_gmt":"2010-05-10T17:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/?p=1083"},"modified":"2010-05-11T06:00:13","modified_gmt":"2010-05-10T17:00:13","slug":"why-i-write-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/why-i-write-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I Write 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

I finished James Ellroy<\/a>‘s The Big Nowhere<\/i> a while back. I’ve read it a few times now. Don’t know if it’s my favourite of his “L.A. Quartet” but I do relish its quicksand plot, bastard cops, and Ellroy’s unremitting style. The end is so black that when I reach it, I immediately want to start over as maybe things will work out better for my favoured characters the next time around.<\/p>\n

The same goes for whenever I rewatch films like The Constant Gardener<\/i> or television shows like The Shield<\/a> where the endings are not happy.<\/p>\n

Why do I subject myself to this torture?<\/p>\n

It’s the execution. It’s the characters. It’s being taken by the hand for a half-hour or hour or ninety-plus minutes or days and returning to the real world short of breath, my heart thundering in my chest and a lump in my throat.<\/p>\n

This is not a new discovery. Romeo and Juliet will never grow old. Rick will always have Paris. Rachel and Deckard will never have certainty.<\/p>\n

And I think to myself:<\/p>\n

  Someone wrote that shit.<\/p>\n

  I lapped that shit up and begged for more.<\/i><\/p>\n

  I want to write like that.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I finished James Ellroy‘s The Big Nowhere a while back. I’ve read it a few times now. Don’t know if it’s my favourite of his “L.A. Quartet” but I do relish its quicksand plot, bastard cops, and Ellroy’s unremitting style. The end is so black that when I reach it, I immediately want to start … <\/p>\n

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