It wasn’t so long ago that I shared with my newsletter, a comment left by a Man Who Shall Not Be Named on a recent article of mine for Jane Friedman‘s blog, in which he (man)splained why taking a stand for what you believe in your fiction was impossible without committing the sin of Bad Art. I couldn’t disagree more–and … Read More
When is the Right Time To Get Feedback?
Those of you who follow me online know that I’ve been working on a short story collection. Some stories in this collection are older, and some are new, but many of them have never been seen by anyone but me–and this is a project I’d like to send out on submission by the end of the year. So I knew … Read More
The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction
I recently finished Life Is Everywhere, a novel by Lucy Ives. Though to call it a novel is a bit of a stretch: it’s really more of a frame story with some stories-within-stories stuffed in the middle, the conceit being that these are the texts the protagonist just happens to have in her bag when she winds up unexpectedly spending … Read More
Dispatches from Anarres: Over the Moon!
I’ve just issued the final acceptances for Dispatches from Anarres: Portland Writers Pay Tribute to the Vision of Ursula K. Le Guin, and HOLY SHIT, Y’ALL.
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