Looking back, staring forward. Standing on this head-of-the-pin moment between two years — an arbitrary distinction, perhaps, from when one calendar becomes useless and a new one must be hung, but a distinction just the same and a fine enough moment to pause and reflect.
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Obligatory THE LIFE OF THE WENDIGO post incoming. Alert your state government. Hide your sisters. It’s time to talk e-books, t-shirts, recipes, cornpunks, baby laughs, and more. And while we’re at it, I ask that you share some recipes and tell me what *you’re* up to, too.
Time again for another list of 25 — this time, a long hard look at the many ways to press hot irons to the feet of your writing and make it beg to get better. Flip through them, and then should you find you’ve got your own to add, well, hot dang, you know what the comments section is for. Time to measure up, penmonkeys.
It’s time once again to continue my series of writing advice posts — the “25 Things” collection. This time, I’m taking a look at the nature of writing good, even great, characters. This post could alternately be titled, “Things I Believe About Writing Kick-Ass Characters.”
Here, then, are my Top Ten favorite flash fiction bits from the “Unexpected Guest” challenge. It was a hard pick — I had to keep whittling it down and down and down. I will say that some folks fell out of the running due to things like formatting: tiny font or muddy dark backgrounds make it very difficult to read the fiction.
Best thing we can do is try to keep our lies contained neatly within our work and not let it live outside of it. Our lies sometimes creep out out of fiction and get inside our heads like an insidious parasite taken on by accidentally ingesting flecks of cat poop. That’s when it gets problematic, when our lies become not a staple of our work but rather about our work.
