Category: For Writers: This Means You

Truth in Fiction

On both Fuse #8 and Liz’s site, there are fabulous and fruitful discussions going on about authenticity and what obligations, if any, writers or reviewers have in terms of ensuring a narrative’s authenticity–and, darn them, they got me thinking about…

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If A Blog Falls In the Forest . . .

So I went to this con in Minneapolis: KidLitCon 2010.  Supposed to be for bloggers about blogging in—and this is my new word for the week—the kitlitosphere. (English is such a great and malleable language.)  Why did I go, especially…

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When You Can’t Say No

Stephen King does a fabulous review of a new Raymond Carver biography and volume of Carver’s stores, restored after being eviscerated by Esquire‘s then-editor, Gordon Lish. (This isn’t the first time this issue has come up either; the NYT has…

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Hint Fiction

Ever tried your hand at writing but petered out because finishing just seemed so . . . hard?  Give this a try: http://www.robertswartwood.com/?page_id=8 Go.  Read the examples.  Hint Fiction suggests a bigger story, the one you’ve got in your head…

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