Tag: writing
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Their Tears Only Make Me Stronger
Me: What a nice relationship and life you have there. My Character: Yes. 🙂 Me: Wouldn’t it be a shame if — My Character: No. Me: I fucked you up next chapter. My Character: 😥 Me:
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Light at the End
I am five chapters from finishing the second draft of my book. It will be 11 months and a little over 50,000 words of work on this draft. Edited to add: I will have written far more than 50,000 words for this draft. The 50k words are the words which survived editing and pruning to make […]
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Poem: love
This came out of a poetry exercise, in which I was supposed to use nonsense words to write about love. It didn’t really work out that way, but I am pleased with the results nonetheless.
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Poem: Sweet and Thick
I wrote this poem a week and a half ago. It was part of an exercise from Easy Guide to Writing Poetry, which I admit has proven very useful in my quest to learn how to write poetry. Sweet and Thick A tumble of red and yellow silver bodies and limbs a wide pale blue arc and […]
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Excerpt: Up to No Good
My current main project is a novella tentatively titled “Bloom”. It’s about a man who believes he is straight, Ben, falling in love with his gay best friend, David. This is an excerpt. It occurs in the last third of the story, when Ben has begun really wrestle with the question of his sexuality. Is he straight? Is […]
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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 […]
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Yours are dead words
After February’s Post-It Note Poetry, I’ve felt invigorated to keep working on my poetry and learning more about the craft of poetry. To that end I’m trying to write a poem a week. I hope, by the end of the year, I will half enough decent poetry to put together in a small collection and […]
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Tell Them Who You Really Want
My current main project is a novella tentatively titled “Bloom”. It’s about a straight man, Ben, who falls in love with his gay best friend, David. This is a short excerpt from the novella. It occurs in the last third of the novella, when Ben has begun to “come out” about his relationship with David. The fact […]
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#PINP17 Day 28
So, here it is. My last poem for Post-It Note Poetry for this year. Passenger I am but a passenger On the back of this world. I’ve really enjoyed writing a poem a day. It gave me permission to write poetry in the first place, something I’ve been scared to do because poetry is […]
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Poem, “Home”
This was originally supposed to be a post-it note poem, but it turned out to be too big for a post-it note. So I decided to post it here. It’s still very much a work in progress, but I hope you enjoy it. Home The smell of you in the morning.
J. S. Kuiken 