Timothy C Goodwin graduated in creative writing from the University Of New Orleans last century, but has only recently figured out what to do about it. He has work included in Maudlin House, Mister Magazine, Ab Terra, The Centifictionist, BULLSHIT, Soor Ploom Press, and co-hosts the Tiffin Inn Writing Workshop podcast; his photography has been featured in HORNS, Fuzz, and Kompromise. He lives in New York City with his partner and their dog, Awesome.
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Interview with Timothy C Goodwin
about his story "Unmoored"
Honorable Mention for The Scribes Prize
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What inspired this piece?
I once had a phone call when I was much younger, and much dumber, where I was trying to hold on to something that was already gone.
What draws you to the micro-fiction format?
I love the game of trying to fit as much as you can into as little you can. It’s like, two hours of staring out the window after your second cup of coffee in the morning looking for one word to say five sentences.
Who are some authors that inspire you?
When I was in college, I discovered Kafka, and his ability to say a lot with a little really made me want to be like him. Of course, because I was in college, I was horrible and awful and my friend said, “This is trying to hard to be Kafka.”
If you could continue writing your story after these 100 words, what would happen next?
Well, if that aforementioned phone call is any indication, I would keep trying to stay on the phone, and keep trying, and keep trying, until I was nothing but a skeleton with a long beard and a tattered Living Colour tee-shirt, holding on to the kind of cell phone that had an antenna.
What's next on the horizon for you?
My college buddy, Mr. You-ain’t-Kafka and I host a podcast (The Tiffin Inn Writing Workshop) where we talk about how, at 50, we’re not the writers we had hoped/assumed we’d be when we were 21; we’re in the middle of our second season, where we’re chronicling our individual attempts to write a novel. I’m kinda half-way through mine, called Madeline Tin and The Chess King and it’s fun…mainly because it’s the first draft, so boy-oh-boy do I (still) think it’s clever.
Which is your favorite Star Trek?
This week? Lower Decks: we all grow up thinking/being told we could be on the Enterprise, but we all end up on the Cerritos. And that’s okay.
I once had a phone call when I was much younger, and much dumber, where I was trying to hold on to something that was already gone.
What draws you to the micro-fiction format?
I love the game of trying to fit as much as you can into as little you can. It’s like, two hours of staring out the window after your second cup of coffee in the morning looking for one word to say five sentences.
Who are some authors that inspire you?
When I was in college, I discovered Kafka, and his ability to say a lot with a little really made me want to be like him. Of course, because I was in college, I was horrible and awful and my friend said, “This is trying to hard to be Kafka.”
If you could continue writing your story after these 100 words, what would happen next?
Well, if that aforementioned phone call is any indication, I would keep trying to stay on the phone, and keep trying, and keep trying, until I was nothing but a skeleton with a long beard and a tattered Living Colour tee-shirt, holding on to the kind of cell phone that had an antenna.
What's next on the horizon for you?
My college buddy, Mr. You-ain’t-Kafka and I host a podcast (The Tiffin Inn Writing Workshop) where we talk about how, at 50, we’re not the writers we had hoped/assumed we’d be when we were 21; we’re in the middle of our second season, where we’re chronicling our individual attempts to write a novel. I’m kinda half-way through mine, called Madeline Tin and The Chess King and it’s fun…mainly because it’s the first draft, so boy-oh-boy do I (still) think it’s clever.
Which is your favorite Star Trek?
This week? Lower Decks: we all grow up thinking/being told we could be on the Enterprise, but we all end up on the Cerritos. And that’s okay.