Update!

Update for the month of June 2019:

I am busy scribbling, scribbling, scribbling. I have new stories bubbling over the rim. I've got one about an Afghan who gives their American counterpart a laughing disease. I've got another about that roadtrip back home after Thanksgiving and a not-so-nice ghost paying a visit in the car. I've got yet another about a farmer on Mars.

So many stories!

So little time...

Check back in to find out where I place these stories (fingers crossed!), and in the meantime feel free to peruse the archives and take a gander at my nearly a year's worth of blogging on everything from my latest novel, THE VALLEN (currently in querying stage), to my first short story ever published, to my dissections on various novels, writing styles and how-to's for writing here.

J.G.P. MacAdam Online is yours to explore!

Recent r/literature Posts Breakdown

I'm considering whether it is advantageous for me to create quarterly or semiannual summaries of posts I've created (and which have been abundantly upvoted) on r/literature. Most of these posts concern books or articles I've read and literary techniques or theories or thoughts I've developed and/or am developing as a result.

Perhaps this will be a good idea, perhaps not. But let's give it a go.

From biggest to smallest then!

Knowledge + Time = ?

I try to determine what the wall is, where it’s leading Essa, and what walking the wall costs her.

This is the central conflict, dilemma, struggle, call it whatever you want, of my newest novel, THE VALLEN. From conception (during the 2016 Presidential campaign in the United States) to brainstorming to outline to writing the rough draft then many other drafts after, I’ve come to the point where I have now completed a submittable manuscript.

And all the while…

I’ve been asking…

Just what is the wall?

There are walls and walls and walls...

Borrowed from Wikipedia

Walls have been around for a long time. As architectural objects, they have a multitude of structural and cultural uses. I can claim no expert knowledge of walls, or their uses, or their endurance or deterioration over the ages, but I can gather together my sentiments towards walls and scribble them down here.

In writing a novel, THE VALLEN, featuring a wall — a border barrier, in particular,  — I obviously withhold some very strong feelings towards walls, barriers, earthworks and other structures which bar or impede free movement.