"Money Only Pays for It" and other stories. Page: III
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PREFACE
In the second foreword to Stephen King's On Writing, he writes: "This is a short book
because most books about writing are filled with bullshit. Fiction writers, present company
included, don't understand very much about what they do-not why it works when it's good, not
why it doesn't work when it's bad" (xvii).
That's what I was thinking when I sat down at my desk to outline this thing. It was hot in
my room that day, and I kept taking off clothes. None of the music I picked was working. There
was a weird smell-something like garlic butter-coming out from under my bed. After taking
the dirty clothes to laundry and lighting a candle, I found myself back at my desk, half naked,
playing solitaire. I was wondering, much like my main character, Todd Welles, at the end of
most stories, "How the hell did I got myself into this?"
I was told that a preface to a creative thesis should probably include something about my
craft, possibly something about the choices I've made as a writer, what political/critical party I
aligned myself with as a critic/writer, something about my place in literary history and the places
I chose to depart from that tradition. The only thing I knew I wanted to talk about was
masculinity theory. I figured that was a good place to start, because after looking back at all the
stories, I realized that every one of them deals with the construction of white American
masculinity. I also figured it would be a good idea to weave a discussion of the writers in my
literary tradition in this section.11iii
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Edgington, Manford L. "Money Only Pays for It" and other stories., thesis, August 2004; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc4619/m1/4/: accessed May 3, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .