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NaNoWriMo #6 part two

Jason Arnett - November 10, 2013

I was supposed to post this yesterday but things conspired to help me forget. Nothing bad, though, just life which gets in the way of everything that needs to be done, right? At the beginning of this I set a daily word count goal of 2000 per day and as an average I’ve hit that. […]

Dreams: The Free-loading Bitches Who Won’t Help Me Write

Larry Jenkins - June 3, 2013

For whatever reason, my dreams refuse to be helpful. I know there are some authors who claim they get brilliant ideas from dreams. I don’t necessarily hate those people, but I haven’t met them in person either, so I’m not prepared to say we’d be friends. I’ve also read at least one article that recommended […]

Stories Are A Luxury

Larry Jenkins - February 4, 2013

My writer friends may take exception with this, but I don’t think the world needs stories. Stories are a luxury. This idea that stories (and any other form of art) are somehow a necessity is false. It’s a notion that we artistic types often perpetuate because we’re trying to assuage our own insecurity about the […]

Remixing in Writing

Aspen Junge - April 21, 2012

For this week’s exploration [0] let us delve into my little used fiction writing side and talk about my flash fiction piece published on this very site just a few weeks ago. The thing with the mountain lion? Totally happened to some friends of mine. Every part of that story was stolen from somewhere else […]

The Artist (Flash Fiction)

Nancy Cayton Myers - March 28, 2012

So yeah, I’m working this fundraiser tonight at the museum. It’s in this room with ancient stone carvings from Egypt. A bunch of rich people and artists from all over rubbing elbows. Used to come in here with my boys from time to time, that’s how I knew about it and now I work here, […]