Tag: fiction
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The Valley
The valley was ten miles and several worlds away. I hailed a taxi at the station and we drove out of town as the late autumn afternoon began its characteristic hush. The road soon began to drop towards a broad wooded valley with patches of mist here and there. I asked the driver to pull…
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for Love of the Damaged and Unbroken
“Who is that? Wh—G-ah!-D…Damn it! Who is that?” The man brayed into the shadows, but there was no answer. Still, even the most possessive Gods allow us to know more than we should. He felt someone there—in the vault with him. For a moment, he heard nothing, neither breath nor heartbeat in those cavernous chambers.…
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Jason’s Daddy
The sun was just beginning to push through the clouds that draped over the Greyhound Bus Terminal on the corner of Mission and First in Downtown Los. Angeles when the six o’clock bus screeched to a halt. It was nearly half an hour late when it pulled into Gate 2, and the line of passengers…
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Doors of Stone release prep : Kingkiller Reread Intro
Ten years ago, I read Name of the Wind and felt captured by a kindred spirit who cared deeply about the state of the world, the fantasy canon, and the capacity of prose to be poetry and myth. Five years later, I read Wise Man’s Fear and the feeling compounded as I started noticing layers:…
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Why My 4th Novel Failed
2024 author’s note — If you’re arriving here from F.C. Schultz’s wonderful first video, you need to know a few things (1) I now run a substack that, among other things, will offer a library of free advice to writers (2) I have a massive free resources page for writers (3) the book I started after…
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Inkwell • from 54 poems at 27
Her house was underground in a town that ends in “A” her daddy was a preacher but the preachin’ wouldn’t pay when her brother tried to drown cause he didn’t wanna grey I tried for days to reach her but she took a week to say meet me in the roundabout in the town square…
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Your First 1000 Copies
Several of you have asked what I think about self-publishing and whether I would recommend any resources for selling your first 1000 copies. I have strong opinions concerning self-publishing that I’ll withhold for now and defer instead to some outside resources like Tim Grahl’s book. Your First 1000 Copies sounds like an audacious title. But…
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Sacrament of Fiction: On Becoming a Writer and Not a Priest
Nick Ripatrazone, author of Good People (a book of stories) and the novella We Will Listen For You, wrote a piece for The Millions back in April entitled “Sacrament of Fiction: On Becoming a Writer and Not a Priest.” I bring it up because it fits right into our goal here of encouraging artists and there are a ton of you…
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Giving Back to Writer UnBoxed: Cold Brewed for $0.99
To give back and pay it forward, I’ve made Cold Brewed available for $0.99 from now until Friday.
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Fairytale Photographer for Kids :: The Chicken Steeper
A STORY NO ONE CAN DUPLICATE… Remember our custom-made fairytale photographer? In Mark’s words: The thought was simple: a series that caters fairy stories to the personality of your child. We’d tell each stories using words and photographs, just like we did with Cold Brewed. This isn’t something I’ve seen done before… and I’m all about trying…
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Paris Review Art of Fiction List
Nothing in the last two years has taught me more about storytelling, fiction, and great reading habits than the Art of Fiction series by The Paris Review. I read around two dozen of them before I decided to work systematically from number one until the end. You can just click here to jump ahead to the complete list of over 230 Art…