Finnegan Flawnt

Missing you already, Mate. Hope there’s some channel to your future writing, and you, about to open.

Best

david

I loved your chillax conversation with the ever thrilling Miss Pokrass on the Smokelong blog this morning. It was such a blast to listen to. Won’t there be one single place where someone like me can write to yours truly after you vanish? I promise I won’t bombard you.

Finnegan, I haven’t seen a story from you in a while, I hope you haven’t been sunk in Flatulence

Thanks for your comment on Pleiku Jacket and having such a physical reaction to it.

ah, yes - another style of writing for the unesteemed Bjorkman to trash, Poetipedia salivates

Thanks for your comment on Love, Story. Glad to bond over LeGuin. Nuff said. Very pleased to be here at fnaut and to meet you!

Kilgore Trout for my pseudonym?

Yes, I miss my children even when I am with them. If I were a man, I would run around creating hundreds until I dropped down dead.

Finnegan, thanks so much for your review of “Snowed In.” I wrote this one some years ago, and was shamelessly copying Hemingway and Carver at the time. Not bad teachers, in my opinion.

Hi Finnegan. Thanks for reading and commenting on Eight States Away - I really appreciate it. Your comment, “kafkaesque”….thanks for that!

Finnegan, perhaps you recall my short story, “Irish Salad.” This evening, I drove to that bar, called McCoy’s Public House, in Excelsior, Minnesota, beauty of which, and I asked the bartender, what is the wood? I told him, I met the owner, and there was a story about the wood, and he said, “I’ll ask,” not that he seemed particularly young. When he returned, he said, “mahogany.” The mahogany in that bar is from Ireland. Then I asked, “What city?” and he said, “Ireland.” He would ask no further.

Finnegan, I’m glad you liked “Estranged.” Kind words, indeed. Thanks!

Thank you, Finnegan, for your note about “Eddie Says.”

Camden Town! That’s the tube stop I was trying to remember for my story! Next in from Hampstead, right?

Hi Finnegan. I was taking a peek at Divine Dirt Quarterly’s second issue and saw your story Taciturn. I have a poem in their current issue and a short story in the previous issue. I saw your name and realized I’d seen you around fictionaut! Small world I guess. :-)

Writing a novel is driving me crazy because I truly love short stories and especially flash fiction. I also love the story of the novel, but it’s very plot driven, which isn’t exactly my strength. I think I’m a more voice driven writer. So much to manage over so many more pages. I’ve written a couple of novels (unpublished) but this is the first one an agent has been interested (not signed with him though). I want to finish it more quickly than I seem to be able to. And also one of the characters is scary and haunts my sleep. More?

Thanks for taking the ride with Beckett and Joyce.

Sweet! I’ll definitely keep it classy. I may send over a rough draft before I do anything else with The Fictitious Adventures of the Fantastic Finnegan Flawnt (the title will probably be something like that). It would be awesome if you read the final, too! Damn, I better do a good job on it. For the past hour I’ve been searching, googling and gathering information about MacGyver for pretty much no reason. Now it’s time to be productive and do some work Under Milk Wood. I’ll keep ya posted.

Thanks so much, Finnegan. I read your story over at LITSNACK the other day. Righteous. I want to write a story about the Mysterious Mr. Flawnt. May I?

Invisible bonus thank you for the invisible bonus fav!

That was an interesting time, right enough. My expat American Friend, Ann, and I were going into Picadilly just when the bomb went off in the pub. The cops methodically cleared out the entire circus, herding people out, a street at a time. We were trying to get across Picadilly on foot and every street we’d come to, like the spokes of a wheel, there’d be cops with yellow tape strung across walking everyone out. We picked up a little old bag lady in a filthy trench coat, lagging us by a step or two, also trying to cut across to no avail. Finally she says to us, “Is there any way to get to the other side?” And my friend Ann, who has a great heart but slightly weak vision, says to her, ” You can always take a cab.” which, cruel git that I am, I’ve never let her forget…

Reading your comments on my story just floored me. Thanks so much for reading it and and for everything you said.

The middle of the mornin’ to ya Finnegan, didn’t i notice that beyond the confines of fictionaut was a whole world with various green shades of paddyness and scribbling, and sure wasn’t I surprised that the terrible beautifcations extended into the electronics of it all. Not only that but me cousins across the big pond was talkin and actin the ejet like they was dragged up in cavan. And shoot me if I’m not lying but didn’t i see yerself on the bookoffaces and twatter and all them other fine specimens of electric wrifications and wasn’t there an uncle of mine called clevercelt that followed ya, begob its far from computers the pair of yous was rared.

Fin, I’m really sorry about being so bad about e-mail. You wrote me a great note a few weeks ago (as suspected/”feared”, my wife has read, and enjoyed, your work). Hope this finds you well. D

Thank you for the encouragement Finnegan!

I will write more … and, I have to admit — writing is tough!

Hey Finn, your comments on “I cant do this anymore” are much appreciated. Thnx!

thanks finnegan. nice to meet you.

Well, Sygfryd, I tried to delete my comment on Gyoza last night (but couldn’t figure out how!) partly because I love your exuberance, partly because wasn’t Sinnead O’Conner booed off stage for life for making one little critical comment about Bob Dylan? Anyway, glad you liked the “deal.” So now of course I will think of you every time I eat gyoza, and, with my 11-year-old stepson being half Japanese, gyoza is definitely on the horizon. May the Japanese sun goddess Amaterasu smile on all of us.
Yours truly, Brunhyld

Hey Finn, thanx for your comments on “the spaces between words”. Its funny i didnt intentionally mean for the repetition of words when i wrote it. But it ended up working beautifully as you mentioned. Thank you.

Thank you so much for your positive comment. I’m freakingfuckingelated to have such a glittering response! Looking forward to reading yours as well.

Pardons. Yes, a title change, though I am most assuredly sincere if not awkward. The stars have not been out me for how I can’t say. Gold, blue or otherwise. Forgive me. I relish.

Nice being on flawntwalk—don’t mind at all

Ha. Cool. Do they have the requisite “EN” tattooed on their impassioned backsides for easy identification?

Thanks for the words of welcome and invite to Second Tongue a week or so ago. I listen auf Deutsch far better than I speak these days. Is there a written test for qualification? Verbal? I love your stuff and thanks again for the note.

thanks Finnegan, I’m glad you like my blog. Hopefully it will only get better!

-Eddie

Hi Finnegan, thanks so much for your comment! I love your “Why I Write…” what a piece in itself! I love “The Serious Writer and His Penis!” What a creative and witty work. Awesome. Take care!

Finnegan, thanks for your kind comments on “Havana.” For some reason, I hadn’t followed you before, but I’ve corrected that now!

Hey, thanks for the writing on the wall!

I read your stories on Hitler’s guardian angel and the serious writer and his penis. I have an inner unicorn with opinions about everything, and those are exactly the sort of things it likes to think about. My inner unicorn also advises me that, in a world where for a woman it’s still by and large considered best to think like a man, look like a child, and not take it personally, yours might be a good male mind to spy on for classified information. I plan on doing that.

Hi Finnegan, what a nice wall note. Indeed, I don’t think I write to know myself anymore. At least I hope not. I don’t think I’d like me very much. Take care man and keep at it, D

Thank you for the fav. And for the invite. And for being you. And wonderful.

Loving “The Serious Writer” series - I hope you keep writing more of it! Thanks for sharing the link - the pieces reminded me of the sparkly power the vignette, and inspired me to post up one of my old ones too.

hello to you! it’s funny you should pop up - I just became (intimately) acquainted with the serious writer series yesterday ;) ps. that hat gives me special summertime powers in dreary winters

Hi Finnegan, thanks, my daughter took that picture of me, at the coffee shop. I guess I kind of like it too. Anyway, I was tired of my other photo, ha. Happy 2010!

Thanks for the welcome, Finnegan. Good spotting on my name! You know your strings of consonants. I look forward to reading your work.

lol, thanx finn! this site has so many things to discover i just dont have the time, im doing all this at work! im glad to know there are workshops, ill have to check it out!

Finnegan, thanx for your feedback and Im also open to criticism. I keep thinking I should be getting some of that too, it would be more real, you know? Although the good comments are definitely so encouraging! thanx again!

Thanks for the shout about my reading on youtube, Finnegan! And Dylan Thomas was my favorite, my starting point!

Hi Finnegan, Thanks for checking out my profile. I don’t really think I’d fit in with the Second Tongue group, but thanks for asking.

Hey Finnegan,

I am now of the ilk of two tongues. But I feel pressure. Lots of it.

I will try to write so long as your couch is willing to listen but I fear that these various media are going to make my neuroses become neurotic in their own right. But that may be a good thing. More stories.

Hi Finnegan,

Thanks so much for your great comments on “Waiting for the Light” in The Hidden Workshop! They were very helpful!

Kim

finn, thanks for your good wishes about ZOO. i sent you a link, i hope it works. i would LLLLOVEEEE it if you would read Mother Tongue for me!!!! WOW!!! now THERE’s a voice that should read that poem. i’m sure it will be a hit with your Metazen fan club too ;-)

Thanks for the kind comment, Finnegan!

Hi Finnegan,

Thanks for the welcome to Second Tongue. I hope to spend more time there soon. At the moment I am kind of overloaded with stuff to do. I like the Vonnegut quote at the top of your site. This is what I need to do today. But away from the computer. (I have a bit of info fatigue.) So on that note…. I’ll drop by again soon I hope!

finnie, I don’t know who the man or the woman is, but it’s a fine photograph ain’t it?

I’ve really got to figure out a way to get people to try writing in hyperfiction without necessarily having to get the software like I use (Eastgate’s Tinderbox or their Storyspace) which makes the mapping a fun way to write and automatically exports templates into html ready for uploading. If you saw some of my work you might’ve caught some with the inclusion of images though the 100 Days Project pieces were simple with only color changes in the css because I did a story a day. Let me figure out how I can get you started; Scott Garson might be of help here…

You’re a sweetheart, Finny (my pet name for you now)and I appreciate all the support you’ve given me here and made me feel a part of it all. I think my own background as an editor and publisher is what makes me supportive of other writers and want to cheer them on. Your own insight and close reading of the work posted here is a delight to see and has often made me take a second look at stories in which I’ve missed that gem.

SO great to see your comments to “Quiet” - what a charge. Indeed, yes, I am trying to work parts of this story into the novel. Thanks again, my friend. D

Finnegan:

Thank you so much for your warmest of welcomes, and I would like to say that I am very glad that we were able to meet during my former days at Twitter. Knowing you and the esteemed MR>H has been a very inspiring association to two very brilliant writers.

I am glad to be here at Fictionaut, and I am looking forward to learning from the many other inspired writers here as well. Can never have ‘too much’ inspiration.

hi finnegan! thanks for the comments you made about my story “EGG”. they were very perceptive. i see you live in berlin?? it’s one of my favourite cities in the world… “i am likely to visit you in your sleep”.. that’s funny ;)