by admin | May 6, 2016 | craft, Editorials |
Make Them Real Breathe life into your characters by making them conflicted, strange, endearing. Give me a character that will make me mad, make me care, make me wonder why I care, and who – in the end – lives a story that is interesting enough for me to want read....
by admin | Apr 22, 2016 | Editorials, Uncategorized |
Michael WileyApril 22, 2016 The Literary and the Criminal Go to any crime writing convention and you’ll find panel after panel organized by subgenre. There are the big subgenres: thrillers v. mysteries. And there are the many particular ones: police procedurals,...
by Fiction Fix | Apr 8, 2016 | Editorials, Featured, Uncategorized |
Teri Youmans GrimmApril 8, 2016 Intention Poetry doesn’t exist in a vacuum of our own thoughts and experiences, our preferences, limited perceptions and points of view. This may be easily understood by other writers, but it wasn’t until the second semester of my MFA...
by admin | Mar 25, 2016 | Editorials, Featured, Inspiration, Uncategorized |
Qué Seraby Sohrab Homi Fracis N.B.: We recommend mobile viewing in landscape. Remember that lovely old song, “Qué Sera Sera”? Growing up in the great city of Bombay, I found its refrain hauntingly fatalistic: “Whatever will be will be. The future’s not ours to see.”...
by Fiction Fix | Mar 14, 2016 | Editorials, Jacksonville, Uncategorized |
Marcus PactorMarch 14, 2016 Good Sense Hate me. I do. Since my son’s conception I have shrunk into yet another white dad with a secure-enough income who writes about white dads with secure-enough incomes. You are reading this dispatch and I have written it even though...
by admin | Jun 19, 2014 | Editorials, Inspiration |
A tutorial by Alex PucherJune 19, 2014 Perpetual Motion 101 What people believe prevails over the truth. –-Sophocles Today I am going to teach you how to build a machine. To be more specific, you will be constructing a perpetual motion machine. You know, one of...
