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The enfant terrible of SF just turned 75, and if anything Harlan Ellison seems more energetic, irascible, and interesting than ever. Just caught the documentary all about Ellison on the Sundance Channel the other night, Dreams With Sharp Teeth. It’s hilarious, as you’d expect, but also rather touching, even if it did talk less than [...]
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Over at Flash Fiction Chronicles today I’ve posted about how flash fiction lets a writer really experiment with execution, especially when it comes to authorial voice. In The Many Voices of Flash I talk about how flash’s quick and somewhat disposable nature makes it a perfect vehicle for experimentation, but beyond that it is the [...]
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Now, having newly discovered the very cool Flash Fiction Chronicles blog, I’ve wasted no time getting some scribbles of my own over there in the hopes that the coolness will rub off on me. My first post there, Flash: The Best Exercise, is up today, and in it I talk about how flash affords writers [...]
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Having been out of the loop for a while, I completely missed Every Day Fiction’s new Flash Fiction blog until recently, but it’s been a pleasure to catch up on the entries over there. Flash Fiction Chronicles, edited by EDF regular Gay Degani, is exactly what it appears to be: a blog focused completely on [...]
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Following up from Monday’s post linking to Cory Doctorow’s advice for Writing in the Age of Distraction, I thought I’d mention two free writing applications designed to confront just that: Write or Die and Dark Room. Both operate on the principle that the less opportunities the writer has to break-off from writing, the better.
Write or [...]
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Over at Locus online an interesting article by Cory Doctorow (they’re always interesting, actually) deals with writing in the internet age. You know how it is — never before has it been easier to write copy with our ultra-portable laptops, spellcheckers, online encyclopedias, and laser printers stuffed with cheap paper, yet matching pace with these [...]
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. . . put your desk in the corner, and every time you sit down there to write, remind yourself why it isn’t in the middle of the room. Life isn’t a support-system for art. It’s the other way around.
Title: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Author: Stephen King
Genre: Nonfiction — Writing
Year:2000
At some point in [...]
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