Category: real life
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Stories That Changed My Writing
A good story lingers long after it’s been completed. A great story changes something for the audience. In my life I’ve been enormously lucky to have come across many stories which have shaped my writing. I was reflecting on these stories when I decided to create a list of the ones which were most influential.…
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Power and Control
Facebook spits out old posts — “memories” — and sometimes it yields something fascinating or insightful. This morning, I had an old post presented to me, one which is still timely:
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His Aura Thefts
I wrote here about the publication of His Aura, an anthology of transmasculine erotica. I am not an erotica author, but I had a few pieces I’d written for a friend’s project which didn’t pan out and thus needed a home, so I submitted them. I was accepted. Gleefully, and trustingly, I signed the contract. And then…
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A Letter to My Younger Self
Dear 22-Year-Old Me: After getting over the shock of discovering your older self is, in fact, a man, and hairier, smellier, and grubbier than you currently are, I expect you might be a tiny bit disappointed. (But not with the impressively groomed facial stubble.) I know that you didn’t expect your life to be like this, thirteen years in…
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alone with the stars in the sky
While I have been neglectful of updating my site or submitting my fiction to magazines, it’s been a long damn year: I broke my ankle in three places last June, in an attempt to learn how to ice skate. I was still recovering well into December of last year. I totaled my car in a…
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#writelifemay Day 1 – May Goals
I have to not give myself too many goals, because then I inevitably have more than I can handle, which means I won’t finish and then I’ll spend a few days hating myself over the not finishing of things. So. Goals for May: Submit all my short stories to one market or another. Send some of them…
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#writelifemay
May is #writelifemay wherein you blog every day and answer a prompt (below). I thought “what the hell, this looks fun”. So here I go!
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The “B” Word
(Image: a smiling man pointing at the bisexual flag.) This article on bisexuality and bisexual people facing discrimination within the LGBT community gave me some food for thought the other day. Particularly about bisexuality in fiction, and male bisexuality in particular. I am writing a book with a male bisexual main character. After years of believing…
J. S. Kuiken 