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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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
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