'The things that the novel does not say are necessarily more numerous than those it does say and only a special halo around what is written can give the illusion that you are reading also what is not written.' Italo Calvino

“BOSCUTTI’S DON SIMPSON” (draft manuscript)

How does Stefano Boscutti bring Don Simpson to life?

He researches and outlines and cuts and orders and edits and reorders and trims and amalgamates (and manglemates) and pushes and shoves too many snippets, thoughts, sounds, lines, insights and whatever falls out of his head into, over and through his original screenplay.  Sometimes he get out of the way and it writes itself.

Then he prints it out and scrawls and rewrites all over it.  Word by word. Sentence by sentence. Paragraph by Paragraph. Chapter by chapter.  (Typlos and all.)

The idea is to have a final novel that reads like a film.  A two hour story experience from one media to another. A two hour movie in words.

But it’s shaping up to be an epic.  Fuck!!  Most of the time he doesn’t even now where it’s going, where Don Simpson is heading.

He’s documenting the process below.  He’s just trying to keep up.

BE THE FIRST TO KNOW WHEN THE NOVEL IS LAUNCHED ON AMAZON