Writing Without Rules: From the Notebook

Writing Without Rules: From the Notebook

Bring the Noise

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Jeff Somers
Aug 31, 2025
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Written a long time ago (you can tell from all the weird descriptors—like “stickily”), this combines an old itch to just get in the car and drive somewhere with a play on both perception—is the main character actually hearing and seeing what he thinks he is?—and the way we stubbornly seek reasons and rules in the face of pure, blind hostility. It’s also…

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