DoubleGinger: ScriptPitch / PerspectiveSlant

by James Shirley Barnes

Overview

A collection of writings: non-fiction, fiction, poetry, dialogue and description from the mind of -James Shirley Barnes-

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781492912712
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	10/07/2013
Pages:	198
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.42(d)

About the Author

Born in Elizabethville, Zaïre 1973, James Shirley Barnes has traveled Europe, Africa and North America extensively.

Living in a vehicle for three years between 1993 and 1996 and spending twelve hour days in a university library reading and writing in order to self educate, the author was diagnosed with schizophrenia in 1996.

DoubleGinger is as a result of a "voice" in writing which depicts life succinctly from the "fog" of being diagnosed schizophrenia.

For example, "Counter Snippet" is a story of an every day encounter with a barista at a coffee shop and "Released Medical Center Patient" is another story "voiced" in present tense about an interaction the author has with a released medical patient on a street.

Also, there is a complete dialogue of a couples counseling session of which the author is a participant as well as abstract accounts about definitions of various schizophrenia symptoms: such as "voices."

All in all, James Shirley Barnes (the author of DoubleGinger) writes with an edgy "voice" resurrecting mundane events in a reader's mind (such as in the story "Morning Snippets") by adding pivoted language (as if hinging on a word with "baited breath") depicting ordinary circumstances.

There are nuances and styles of writing to be learned by ordering and reading this 198 page book of short stories, poems, non-fiction, fiction, dialogue and descriptive depictions.