Thursday, January 13 (cont'd)

Point and Shoot, Florida (YU)--People liked Florida Writer: A Bestiary so much, Brew wrote another pamphlet, an alphabet. Florida Native: A Gazetteer. Then he wrote Florida Writer: Kvetch, Kvetch, Kvetch and Pascua Florida: Feast of Flowers.

He thought they were like 32 Short Films About Glenn Gould.

Then he wrote a screenplay, 100 Views of Parker, Florida: A Screenplay.

Then he wrote a screenplay, Florida's Last Frontier: A Screenplay.

He combined the four alphabets and two screenplays into a book, FLORIDA WRITER: WHY I LIVE WHERE I LIVE. AN UNEMPLOYED PERSON'S GUIDE TO FLORIDA'S EMERALD, AND FLORIDA'S FORGOTTEN COASTS.

Then he wrote a play. Working Title: Play.

So now FLORIDA WRITER was four self-published alphabets, two unproduced screenplays, and an unstaged play.

You ought to try selling a book like that to New York.

But Brew thought they were like The Yearling and Cross Creek Cookery, plus the memoir Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' maid Idella wrote about the visit of Zora Neal Hurston.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings was a Florida writer, Zora Neale Hurston was a Florida writer, Idella Parker was a Florida writer, Brew was an upstart with delusions of grandeur. A disgruntled upstart. Who did Brew think he was?

Point and Shoot, Florida (YU)--Brew's current series of books was called Diary of a Contented Online Writer: An Experiment in Form. The first book of the series was called JANUARY. In JANUARY, Brew was looking for his form.
No, in JANUARY Brew found his form. The bylined satirical newspaper column novel. The creative nonfiction bylined column novel. BREW'S NEWS.

He thought about renaming JANUARY, a working title, BREW'S NEWS: NEWS THAT ISN'T FIT FOR THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA TO PRINT.

Then he thought no, he would end JANUARY and start a new book. BREW'S NEWS: NEWS THAT ISN'T FIT FOR THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA TO PRINT.

BREW'S NEWS would be as long or as short as it needed to be. Diary of a Contented Online Writer: An Experiment in Form could be two books, it could be 12 books, it could be anywhere in between.

Point and Shoot, Florida (YU)--Brew had found his form. The creative nonfiction bylined column novel. With appendixes for Correspondence, Interviews, Poems, and Miscellanea. Miscellanea like "Description of BREW'S NEWS," "My Qualifications," etc.

Blessed is the man who's found his work, Emerson said. Brew said blessed is the writer who has found his form.

On errands of life, my stories end up in the Dead Letter Office.