! - as a writer, I use words & punctuation to communicate things. Why rule out any of those words or marks of punctuation? Even if they don’t feel natural, you should force yourself to use them once in awhile. What if someone told a painter that they couldn’t use the color blue?
! – don’t for a second think that the exclamation point is in any way simply an excitement machine. To me, the mark puts the reader on high alert. The sentence that precedes that mark is, yes, one of intense feeling or thinking (big happy or big sad), but it is not always thrilled about it. I am as emphatic about my ambivalence as anything else!
! – people misunderstand me. You mention “disbelief, bedazzlement, despair, wonder, heartbreak.” You say you don’t detect any artifice. Thank you. I am completely for real. I’m realer than real. I’m right now more than ever & I want you to know that & feel that. I want you dizzy & confused right alongside me; I want you befuddled & awestruck while holding my hand.
I’ve been labeled amped up, torqued, overblown, melodramatic. Yes, yes, yes. Yes. Gosh -- my first book was called Sensational Spectacular! But: Is this guy for real?
Yes!
Nate Pritts will be reading at (le) Poisson Rouge with Matt Hart on March 9 for the InDigest 1207 Reading Series. For more on Nate Pritts look here.
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