Editing Chuck Palahniuk (section)

==="Guts" and ''Haunted''===
While on his 2003 tour to promote his novel ''[[Diary (novel)|Diary]]'', Palahniuk read to his audiences a short story entitled "Guts", a sensational tale of accidents involving [[masturbation]], which appears in his book ''[[Haunted (Palahniuk novel)|Haunted]]''. The story begins with the author telling his listeners to inhale deeply and that "this story should last about as long as you can hold your breath." It was reported that 40 people had fainted listening to the readings while holding their breath.<ref>"[http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/generalfiction/story/0,6000,1168227,00.html I dare you]". ''[[The Guardian]]''. March 13, 2004.</ref> ''[[Playboy]]'' magazine later published the story in their March 2004 issue and Palahniuk offered to let them publish another story along with it, but the publishers found the second work too disturbing to publish. On his tour to promote ''[[Stranger than Fiction: True Stories]]'' during the summer of 2004, he read "Guts" to audiences again, bringing the total number of fainters up to 53 (and later up to 60 while on tour to promote the softcover edition of ''Diary''). In the fall of that year, he began promoting ''Haunted'', and continued to read "Guts". In June 2005, Palahniuk noted that his number of fainters was up to 67.<ref>{{cite news|author= |url= https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/3643352/67-people-fainted-as-I-read-my-horror-story.html |archive-url= https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/3643352/67-people-fainted-as-I-read-my-horror-story.html |archive-date=January 12, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=67 people fainted as I read my horror story |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |date=June 7, 2005 |access-date=June 30, 2014}}{{cbignore}}</ref> 

At a 2005 appearance in Miami, Florida, during the ''Haunted'' tour, Palahniuk commented that ''Haunted'' represented the last of a "[[horror fiction|horror]] trilogy" (including ''Lullaby'' and ''Diary''). He also indicated that his then-forthcoming novel, ''[[Rant (novel)|Rant]]'', would be the first of a "science fiction trilogy".

In 2008, Palahniuk spent a week at the [[Clarion West Writers Workshop]], instructing eighteen students about his writing methods and theory of fiction.<ref>{{cite journal| title= Clarion West Turns 25| journal= Locus Magazine| date= September 2008| page= 5}}</ref>