Tag: writing
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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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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.…
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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.
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An Excerpt from “The Greek Boy”
Last night at the Colorado Springs Writers Read Series, I read an excerpt from my short story “The Greek Boy”, which is about Lord Byron. In the final months of his life, Lord Byron was preoccupied with two things: supporting the Greek struggle for independence against Turkey, and his fifteen year old page-boy, Lukas. This…
J. S. Kuiken 