Steve Ersinghaus

I’m currently programming a new search engine called Ask Colonel Hickory (no relation to Andrew Jackson). Not really, but it would be fun. Ask Colonel Hickory is not a boolean, tag, or relational search but deals instead with a sense of irony.
“Colonel Hickory, will we ever win the war on terror?”
“Georgie,” the Colonel would respond, [...]

Wally Rorschach fell in love in English. His wife fell in love in Spanish. They never really reconciled the linguistics of love. Nevertheless, they were able to raise two children. In English.
He remembers the land of Benito Juarez, Oaxaca. She did too, but was consoled by southern New Mexico, then struck dumb by the Connecticut [...]

Wally Rorschach has been on my mind a lot. A related subject came up in the fiction course yesterday. It has a lot to do with my smoking habit, which I’ve gotten away from. The torture continues and continues but it makes sense. I’ve had a few smokes in the last month but have basically [...]

Narrative to character tie-in. It is Wally who wonders about sunpower. Why? Because he has an “I’m being chased” personality. All his life. Had he been turning his head all this time because of an impression of foot-falls at his back? Maybe. Or maybe it’s something else. It’s not an “I’m being chased” it’s a [...]

How to write a novel:
Invent a person you want to spend three years with then spend three years with them in language.
In this scenario of the novel, the invented persona better be interesting. They must hold your attention. They have to have a few things:
1. Memory (history: history is just numerous kinds of memory)
2. A [...]

This log’s going to be dealing a lot with space of mutiple kinds and a man named Wally Rorschach over the summer months. Wally Rorschach is the protagonist of a novel titled The Man who Fell into the Sky, which I’ve had on the back burner for a couple of years. Mentally speaking, at this [...]