J. S. Kuiken

J. S. Kuiken

writer of queer literary romance

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  • The Only Time a Writer Will Tell You to Watch Some Damn TV

    Until recently, every time someone proudly told me they “don’t watch TV” or “don’t watch much TV”, my knee-jerk reaction was to congratulate them. As if to endorse their choice. It makes sense, of course. The notion that TV and film — visual media and narrative — are somehow “less worthy” than written literature, for […]

    J. S. Kuiken

    June 16, 2013
    Blog
    film, folklore, media literacy, meta, mythology, narrative, television
  • You Should be Writing

    Some of you are probably familiar with that “you should be writing meme”, wherein people take a picture of their favorite TV or film characters, and put the caption “you should be writing” on the picture. You can do a quick Google image search to get the gist of the idea. I have a few of […]

    J. S. Kuiken

    May 25, 2013
    Blog
    fantasy, fiction, meme, science fiction, the writing life
  • Lambda Literary Fellowship

    Long time no blog for me! It was a hectic spring semester for me, to say the least. But I bring very glad tidings: I have been awarded a Fellowship with the Lambda Literary Emerging Writer’s Retreat. I am still dazed and humbled over the fact that my work (and therefore, myself) were selected. I will […]

    J. S. Kuiken

    May 22, 2013
    Blog
    fantasy fiction, fiction, lambda literary fellowship, speculative fiction
  • My Nerd Cred, Let Me Show It You

    Despite my better judgement, I have been sucked into Vikings on History channel. I say “despite my better judgement”, because I usually avoid overly violent shows, and shows with too much rape or implied rape. (Hey man, there are some things I just don’t enjoy watching.) But . . . I was also a Scandinavian […]

    J. S. Kuiken

    March 27, 2013
    Blog
    ABUSE OF ALL CAPS, fanfiction, nerd times are good times, no pretense of actual history, norse, vikings
  • The Status is Not Quo: Sexism in Fantasy

    This past week, I had the misfortune of speaking with another fantasy author who thought that sexism in medieval fantasy “makes sense”. She was defending another author’s sexist assumptions about a work we were critiquing. I gave her what I hoped was my best are you fucking kidding me? look before proceeding to explain the obvious: “It’s fantasy. […]

    J. S. Kuiken

    March 20, 2013
    Blog
    fantasy, fiction, i c wut u did thar, sexism, what the fuck is this shit, writing
  • On Irony and The Hobbit

    I have been duly informed that The Hobbit commits the grave sin of trying to imbue the story and characters with filthy, degrading Irony, of all things!!! I believe that Irony has become so crassly omnipresent that it is the most debased form of wit, far lower than jokes about unpleasant bodily functions and moribunded […]

    J. S. Kuiken

    December 5, 2012
    Blog
    irony, satire, the hobbit
  • It’s a thousand pages, give or take a few

    I have seen this meme bouncing around the blogsphere the past few days, so I thought I’d give it a try: Tell me about a story I haven’t written, and I’ll give you one sentence from that story.

    J. S. Kuiken

    November 15, 2012
    Blog
    meme, writing
  • A Dull Dough Sours

    I am currently putting together a writing sample for graduate school applications. I had thought I would write, rewrite, and revise a short story which had been brewing in the back of my mind since December.  I made it 3/4 of the way through the story, and I utterly hated it. Not in a “wow […]

    J. S. Kuiken

    September 12, 2012
    Blog
  • Hot Damn that is My Jam: the Use of the Second Person

    I love second person. There I typed it. I will hopefully hit “Publish” later and then this will be released, in black and white kilobytes, for any and all who surf that world wide web to shake their heads over and “tsk” at. I know that second person is not the most popular out there. […]

    J. S. Kuiken

    July 6, 2012
    Blog
    fiction, hot damn that is my jam, narrative, pov, pov in fiction, prose, second person, short stories
  • Fiction and (Not) Reality

    Tonight at the monthly Colorado Springs Writers Reading Series, I had the privilege of reading “The Racehorse” in the company of some very fine and very generous writers who shared their work as well. Before reading I asked the audience if anyone liked horses or horse-racing. About half a dozen hands went up and a […]

    J. S. Kuiken

    January 13, 2012
    Blog
    art, flashfiction, horses, literature, short stories, writing
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