Time again for another iteration of the Terribleminds “25 Things” series — this time, a whopper of a list focusing on plot and all the fiddly bits, warts, pimples, blisters, skin tags, and syphilitic nobbins. What is a “nobbin?” Hell, I don’t know. Just click the link and read, will you?
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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.
Right now, some of the strongest, strangest material being done right now in fiction is being done in the realms of YA. It’s good to get outside that comfort zone, because trust me, teenagers have no comfort zone. I don’t think they’re afforded that luxury. So you can suck it, WSJ.
Outside the air we breathe and the blood in our bodies, the one thing that connects us modern humans today with the shamans and emperors and serfs and alien astronauts of our past is a heritage — a lineage — of stories. Stories move the world at the same time they explain our place in it. They help us understand ourselves and those near to us.
Check out: IRREGULAR CREATURES, my first short story collection. Featuring an unholy host of bizarre beasties and mythological mutants. Flying cats! Bigfoot! Mermaids! Infernal Bangkok strippers! A mystic hobo hermaphrodite! These nine stories drunkenly swerve between fantasy, horror, and science-fiction — with a dash of humor and absurdity thrown in for good measure. “You’ll be […]