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Chapter 4 is online.

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CHAPTER 3 is online.
Is anyone interested in downloadable versions? Like .pdf?
PDF versions are now the default.

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Take a look to the right of the page. There, under the “More Info” heading, you’ll find links to the text of Lithium. So far I have the first two chapters posted.
I’ll let you know as I post additional chapters.
Thanks for reading!
Edit: Here are the links: CHAPTER 1, and CHAPTER 2.

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Ms. Marly Russoff replied with a nice ‘We are not accepting new fiction submissions at this time.’
I’m revising my policy on not writing about agent responses. I don’t imagine agents are googling every submission they receive. (That’s right: I’m unilaterally lower-casing the verb form of ‘Google.’)
Seven rejections really is not very many. What I’m really [...]

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You are Dr. Doom

Dr. Doom

70%

Apocalypse

62%

Magneto

53%

Mr. Freeze

53%

Juggernaut

48%

Lex Luthor

47%

Venom

42%

Catwoman

41%

Green Goblin

40%

Dark Phoenix

39%

Poison Ivy

37%

The Joker

36%

Kingpin

35%

Mystique

32%

Two-Face

24%

Riddler

19%

Blessed with smarts and power but burdened by vanity.

Click here to take the Super Villain Personality Test

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Wired News has this story about Japanese novelists who compose via cell phone.

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This kind of stuff makes me feel better. Here’s Wallace on the differences between writing fiction and nonfiction:
I’ll be honest: I think of myself as a fiction writer. Fiction’s more important for me, so I’m more scared and tense about fiction, more worried about whether I’m any good or not. The weird thing is that [...]

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I’ve finished reading Infinite Jest but Infinite Jest has not finished with me.
David Foster Wallace’s book has stuck in my head the way few other books have (The Sound and the Fury, V., Gravity’s Rainbow, and London Fields are the others). To paraphrase Wallace (on Infinite Jest, not the others, but to me personally the [...]

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