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The Nameless Land: Into Egypt
Much of The Nameless Land  takes place in Egypt and Sinai, but only a small section of my journals and idea books actually inspired the...
Scott Lewis
Aug 134 min read
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The Nameless Land: the Background
From the very beginning, The Nameless Land  was always destined to be a visionary parable centering around the problem of sin and deceit....
Scott Lewis
Aug 134 min read
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The Nameless Land: Why This Book Exists, or Love as Pyramid Scheme
The Nameless Land  exists so as to attempt to answer one simple question: can love and marriage exist in a world filled with so much...
Scott Lewis
Aug 132 min read
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Why Does Anastasia’s Midnight Song Exist? Why This Book?
Anastasia’s Midnight Song addresses the most complicated factors regarding a person’s coming of age—factors that sometimes blend together...
Scott Lewis
Jan 153 min read
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Anastasia’s Midnight Song: Healing a Wound
Like anything else that anyone ever wrote, Anastasia’s Midnight Song solves an inner wound—specifically, a lingering sense of guilt that...
Scott Lewis
Jan 152 min read
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Anastasia’s Midnight Song: the Background
Anastasia’s Midnight Song follows from an idea book that I kept during my senior year of high school, fall of 1986-spring 1987. And it’s...
Scott Lewis
Jan 153 min read
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On the Threshold: the Background
On the Threshold follows from an idea book written while working on an M.F.A degree in poetry at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville,...

M. Laszlo
Mar 10, 20243 min read
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The Lost Scene from On the Threshold: The Madman from Chapter Twenty-One(Deeming it totally unnecessary, the publisher deleted it.)
The madman pointed at her winding watch and then tapped the dial. “Do you remember the night of the big fire in Leicester Square? I’ll...

M. Laszlo
Mar 10, 20244 min read
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The Burning Man: A Note on the Symbolism
Some who read my latest work, On the Threshold, may possibly wonder just what in the world would be the origins of the burning-man figure...

M. Laszlo
Mar 10, 20242 min read
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On the Threshold: How a Visionary Novel Healed a Personal Wound
So much of the inspiration for my work, On the Threshold, comes from the notorious Amityville murders of 1974. Chances are that many...

M. Laszlo
Mar 10, 20244 min read
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The Voice of London: Or, the Power of Colloquialism and Peculiar Jargon
We all know that everything began with the word. According to Judeo-Christian tradition, nothing even existed before Jehovah spoke. “Let...

M. Laszlo
Feb 1, 20244 min read
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5-10 Musts That Every Story in My Trans-Genre Must Have
The Phantom Glare of Day is a trans-genre work that seeks to truly help people to grasp and to face very real and very difficult aspects...

M. Laszlo
Feb 1, 20242 min read
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Character Creation
The creation of a character hinges on a short list of things. First, the character must embody at least some of the author’s intellectual...

M. Laszlo
Feb 1, 20245 min read
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The Phantom Glare of Day - Background of the Book
The Phantom Glare of Day follows from a youthful diary that I wrote while traveling through England in the summer of 1985. It’s hard to...

M. Laszlo
Feb 1, 20242 min read
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Why Did I Become a Writer?
For some, this kind of question may be difficult to answer. For me, the question is exceedingly easy. And my answer is quite simple: the...

M. Laszlo
Feb 1, 20242 min read
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Where do Ideas Come From?
Many ideas come from our conscious observations of the phenomenological world, obviously. Still, we must remember that in the selfsame...

M. Laszlo
Feb 1, 20245 min read
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Breaking My Silence and Speaking from the Heart
Readers, you should understand several key points regarding a visionary work like The Phantom Glare of Day. First: These novellas are...

M. Laszlo
Feb 1, 20241 min read
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How to Handle Negative Criticism
To the best of my knowledge, there are only three ways to handle negative criticism. First, a writer may seek to learn something from the...

M. Laszlo
Feb 1, 20242 min read
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