J. S. Kuiken

J. S. Kuiken

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  • How to Be an Edgy Speculative Fiction Writer

    Be a white male.  Also be straight and cisgender. Say you are liberal and sympathetic to feminists and minorities. But continue to reap the benefits of white male privilege.  Have a Twitter picture where you look Daring and Bold.  Read H. P. Lovecraft. Worship at his altar.  Attend a workshop which is only prestigious within…

    J. S. Kuiken

    February 7, 2016
    Blog
    Blog, snark
  • The Truth About the Writing Life

    Writer: What am I even doing.

    J. S. Kuiken

    December 19, 2015
    Blog
    Blog, creative writing, fiction, fuuuuuuuuuck, it me, writing
  • I write serious literature guys

    Hahaha, I am not even sure what this short story I’m working on will end up being, but I am keeping this line, or a close variation thereof. Not safe for work, virgin eyes are best averted, etc: “Fuck Italy. Fuck Rome, fuck Orvieto, fuck Florence, fuck Botticelli right up the ass with an unlubed…

    J. S. Kuiken

    June 24, 2015
    Blog
    Blog, my writing, nsfw, once he started being pissed off, really, this character only got interesting, writing
  • And I believe in reinvention

    I was all set to write a post about the last few weeks of working on the rewrite of my novel. The post was going to be informative and about . . . something. Instead I bought a new flash drive. In the process of transferring files to this new flash drive — which was…

    J. S. Kuiken

    September 20, 2013
    Blog
    real life, writing, writing angst
  • I’ll be writing more in a week or two

    At the start of each new semester, I have to help my students unlearn a lot of bad writing habits, the first of which is that good writing doesn’t just happen. It takes time, effort, and practice, which usually translates into multiple drafts. Nope, a writer can’t just magically sit down and write a single…

    J. S. Kuiken

    September 3, 2013
    Blog
    novel: song of the son, rewriting, writing
  • Let me learn from where I have been

    I’ve been trying to figure out what I would write about the Lambda Literary Emerging Writer’s Retreat. I think the solution is just to sit down and write, and by the process of writing, get to what I want to say. First off: Malinda Lo, my awesome workshop instructor, wrote a great post on the…

    J. S. Kuiken

    September 3, 2013
    Blog
    creative writing, fiction, lambda literary retreat, lgbt, llfellows2013, queer, trans, writing
  • This Is Not The Post You Are Looking For

    I will be blogging about my experience at the Lambda Literary Emerging Writers Retreat at some point. For now, I really just wanted to write a “thank you” post to all of the people who helped me get to the Retreat. I would sincerely like to thank all of the people, past and present, who…

    J. S. Kuiken

    August 15, 2013
    Blog
    fiction, lambda literary retreat, writing
  • 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
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