Fiction Writing
Making up is so hard to do. These articles help fiction writers write better, sell better, and generally become better writers of fiction.
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I’m Somebody’s Mozart So I went to Madison to speak at the University of Wisconsin’s Writer’s Institute and to launch my latest novel, Lucy in the Sky, which is set in hippie times of Madison and Milwaukee in 1969, and thus seemed like… |
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Top 10 YA Books Every Writer Should Read Advertise here via BSA There’s a lot of YA fiction out there, some of it good, some of it not so good, and some of it awesome. If you want to write YA that comes in that latter category, then… |
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Respecting Your Natural Rhythms What are your natural rhythms–in life and in writing? How well does the reality of your life support those rhythms? I am writing this from Breckenridge, a very small Colorado village in the Rockies. It’s known for skiing, but I… |
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Partyknife | 05.22.12 Dan Mager’s Partyknife is available now for exclusively through the Bird LLC site, prior to the official release date of June 4th. That’s the trailer for it below.… |
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Book Review: The Land of Decoration | 05.22.12 By David S. Atkinson The child voice has amazing potential in fiction when used the right way. Few authors seem to recognize what it can do, or just don’t choose to utilize it. However, The Land of Decoration amply demonstrates… |
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Write Like the Buddha “That nothing is static or fixed, that all is fleeting and impermanent, is the first mark of existence. It is the ordinary state of affairs. Everything is in process. Everything—every tree, every blade of grass, all the animals, insects, human… |
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American Life in Poetry: Column 374 | 05.22.12 BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE The following poem by Kathryn Stripling Byer is the second in a series of related poems called Southern Fictions. Despite all the protective barriers we put up between us and the world, there’s always… |
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How To Write a Best Seller – Advice From an Olympic Medal Winner A guest post by Dr John Yeoman of Writers Village Tell me, how should I have answered this email? ‘Dear Sir or Mdm I dremed of being writer since I was litle. I have a realy good story it realy… |
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The Emotion In Your Writing Is Failing, and Here’s Why Advertise here via BSA Have you ever read a story you wrote and feel like it’s missing something? It’s probably got something to do with that age-old writing advice: “Show, don’t tell.” But why does “telling” fall flat? The part… |
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Paul Thomas Anderson’s “The Master” | 05.21.12 Today we get the first clip from Paul Thomas Anderson’s next film The Master, which will be released on October 12th. The film, written by Anderson, stars Amy Adams, Joaquin Phoenix, and Philip Seymour Hoffman.… |
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Mini-review: Herta Müller’s ‘The Hunger Angel’ By Ashleigh Lambert Herta Müller’s latest novel is called The Hunger Angel, but for 17-year-old Leo Auberg, it isn’t only hunger that takes on human form. As Leo shivers and starves in a Soviet work camp, he perceives all kinds of… |
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31 Authors, 1 Model of a Writers’ Cooperative: Author Tawny Stokes on the Bandit Creek Series Over the past year, there’s been a self-publishing experiment taking place in the Calgary branch of the Romance Writers of America. (CARWA, members of which are known under the apt moniker “Carwackians.”) I’ve been an interested observer. Now that the… |
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Literary Events This Week in New York | 05.21.12 Monday: Roxane Gay and Brian Evenson read at the Center for Fiction, 7pm Tuesday: Literary Death Match w/ David Rees, muMs, Sarah Rose Etter, Leigh Stein, Touré, Megan Neuringer, and host Todd Zuniga at The Back Room, 7pm Belladonna* presents… |
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The 2-Word Solution for Every Blocked-up Genius Get a pen ready. You’ll want to write this one down. You’re writing a masterpiece. It’s going to be the best thing written, ever, by anyone. It’ll be epic and entirely original. Every sentence will flow with wit, while being… |
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Learning to Embrace My Limits 1. Habit I sing ALL the time. In the car, in the shower, in the bedroom while I’m ironing. My poor musically inclined boyfriend is very nice about it — maybe because I’m ironing his shirts — but the truth is,… |
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Networking for the Cowardly and Terrified So it should start becoming more and more obvious that I’m going through a writer-identity crisis as things get closer to the release of my book. And lucky you — you get to be a witness to my crisis. In… |
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Antony Hegarty on Feminism | 05.18.12 Antony Hegarty is releasing a new album of live works titled CUT THE WORLD on August 7. He has posted something of a short film with a track from the album as well. However, this isn’t a musical track; it’s… |
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Contracts There’s a lot of talk in the writing/publishing world about contracts. Author/Agent contracts, publisher’s contracts, advances, foreign rights, non-exclusivity clauses. But those aren’t actually the kind of contracts I wanted to talk about today. I want to talk about the… |
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Poem of the Day Podcast: Mark Jarman | 05.17.12 Listen: Mark Jarman Mark Jarman’s latest collection of poetry is Bone Fires: New and Selected Poems (Sarabande Books, 2011). He is Centennial Professor of English at Vanderbilt University and an Elector for the American Poets’ Corner at the Cathedral Church… |
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This Is EXACTLY How Books Are Published Advertise here via BSA Well, perhaps not quite. But still, this infographic over at the Weldon Owen site is a brilliant and funny representation of our your idea gets turned into a book. I particularly like the part where the… |
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You say Potato, I Say Potato, You Say Tomato, I Say Book Sales Kath here. We’re thrilled that novelist Liz Michalski is back to guest with us! Liz’s last guest post with us was just terrific, and we’re so pleased she agreed to return and discuss a quite unusual way of marketing your… |
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Poem of the Day Podcast: Christine Hume – “Recurrent Curse,” covered by Ryan Vaderhoof of Akron / Family | 05.16.12 Listen: Christine Hume – “Recurrent Curse,” covered by Ryan Vaderhoof of Akron / Family Today’s poem is titled “Recurrent Curse” by Christine Hume, and is covered by Ryan Vaderhoof of the band Akron / Family. Hume is the author of… |
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InDefinite Podcast ep. #45: Kirby Gann reads from “Ghosting” | 5.16.12 Listen: Kirby Gann – “Ghosting” Kirby Gann is the author of the novels Ghosting [Ig Publishing, 2012], The Barbarian Parade [Hill Street Press, 2004] and Our Napoleon in Rags [Ig Publishing, 2005]. He is also co-editor (with poet Kristin Herbert)… |
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Something Old, Something New Like most writers, whether new or established, I have folders—physical and electronic—filled with stories that either never quite got to publication but that your instinct tells you are still worth something; or else were published long ago and whose details… |
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‘Murder 101′: 7 Reasons to Kill your Characters Advertise here via BSA You may have seen the trailer for The Dark Knight Rises. It’s a beautiful thing, but it’s also has an unusually lugubrious tone. A tone that suggests that Batman might not make it through to the… |
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Poem of the Day Podcast: Leigh Stein – “Second Dispatch From the Future” | 05.15.12 Listen: Leigh Stein – “Second Dispatch From the Future” Today’s poem is by Leigh Stein, whose work has previously appeared in InDigest. Leigh Stein’s debut novel from Melville House is titled The Fallback Plan. Her new collection of poems Dispatch… |
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What We’ve Been Reading | 05.15.12 By David Atkinson I would be baffled as to how anyone could not love a book that starts with the line: “Mozart walked into the sex-change clinic on a cold, snowy July morning, intending to have his sprouter snipped off.”… |
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Classic Hits: on Subway Graffiti | 05.15.12 The fashion in which early street art, graffiti art, and other aerosol-based alternative art forms went undocumented in their infancy — possibly because of a desire to not document illegal activities, possibly because it wasn’t understood as a “serious” art… |
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Characters Welcome Today’s guest is bestselling Kindle author Kathleen Shoop. Her second historical fiction novel, After the Fog, is set in 1948 Donora, Pennsylvania. The mill town’s ”killing smog” was one of the worst environmental disasters in U.S. history, triggering clean air advocacy and eventually, the Clean Air Act. Kathleen’s debut… |
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Vanessa Place Reads at the “Protocols of Literary Listening” | 05.14.12 Vanessa Place reads from “Statement of Fact” on May 2nd, as a part of the “Protocols of Literary Listening” event at the Whitney Biennial. This is just an excerpt that posted to the Pennsound YouTube channel.… |
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Literary Events in New York This Week | 05.14.12 Monday: Author Rosecrans Baldwin discusses Paris, I Love You But You’re Bringing Me Down with blogger Jason Diamond of Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Introduced by Ron Hogan of Beatrice.com at Greenlight Bookstore, 7:30pm Tuesday: The Moth StorySLAM. Theme: Human Resources at… |
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