Jesse Teller

Category: Writing

  • Write Like a Gangster, Class 2: Inspiration

    Write Like a Gangster, Class 2: Inspiration

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    Hey, ho, let’s go! Welcome back! This week we’re gonna talk about inspiration. Not why we write, but how we get ourselves ready to write. You all have a reason why you write that I’m not gonna understand, and you don’t necessarily have time to tell. Reading Assignment for this class: “Savior” In today’s reading,…

  • Write Like a Gangster, Class 1: Syllabus

    Write Like a Gangster, Class 1: Syllabus

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    This course is going to be called Write Like A Gangster. I figured out through the course of my career so far that a lot of people will tell you so many hard, fast rules of what you should and shouldn’t do when you’re writing. I don’t believe in those. I’ve broken the rules too…

  • The Eulogy of the Scribe of the Mountain

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    Dale Triplett took his own life, and it feels like it happened five minutes ago. I have DID (Dissociative Identity Disorder) or multiple personalities. And I find myself shifting from one alter to the next, all during the day. Each of them is in a different stage of grief. Each of them has different memories…

  • Scribe of the Mountain

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    Years ago, I entered a contest. All the participants were thrown into a Facebook group. Next day I woke up to a Friend Request and a message. “Hey I live right down the road in a tiny town called Kimberling City. I saw your bike. Saw a picture of you with a beer. We should…

  • The Appeal

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    I started Reality of the Unreal Mind as a blog to tell my readers a little bit about who I am as a person and the things that I have been through. As I traveled through the telling of this tale, I have been finding things out and setting things next to each other in…

  • The Zombie Queen

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    At Kimberling book fair when The Gunslinger stood me up and Sunshine came out of nowhere, I met the Zombie Queen and nothing was ever the same. She bought my Manhunters series. I bought her Zombie Club series. And this is what I got. She is a local writer. Not to say she isn’t international…

  • The Accompanist

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    When Bekah and I decided to self-publish Liefdom we had a problem. We had to show the world the greatest final product that we could manage. We had gotten it edited by The Genius. We had written it and polished it. Liefdom had been put through six rewrites. Bekah had sorted through every word and…

  • The Optimist

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    Prince has to tell these stories because I never met this woman. He talked to her for the first time about a day after he was born at a workshop in Chicago. She was one of the editors there to grant what wisdom she could after reading just five pages of our work. She told…

  • The Genius

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    It started with a dead wasp. Prince was ten minutes old when he walked into The Genius’s hotel room, rolled up his pages and killed her intruder. They sat down and she pulled out his pages. “I have been looking forward to you,” she said. “This is some of the greatest world building I have…

  • The Big Sister

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    The best book I have ever read in my life was given to me as a beta read by a woman I will call The Big Sister. We are going to go a ways around in order to get to her, but I need to focus you on this woman. And the way her book…