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“The Joke Was On Me” by Linda M. Crate
you did not choose for me to be your muse, but neither did i choose to fall in love with a rogue; it just happened without my permission which love does it opens us up to our vulnerabilities and pours out our souls— you stole pieces of me that i will never get back killed…
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TV Binging and Conservatives Killing Literature…
Blurring the lines between fiction and reality (The Straits Times) Recently, I interviewed an imaginary character. This was Geronimo Stilton, journalist and author, who has penned more than 100 books for young children about his travels to ancient Egypt, the kingdom of fantasy, back in time, too many places to count. He is also a fictional…
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Allan Batchelder, author of Steel Blood and Fire
When and why did you begin writing? I started writing compulsively when I was in the 8th grade, about 14 years old. I had an English class in which writing regular short stories was part of the curriculum…only my stories were thirty, forty, fifty pages long. I just got hooked and have never really stopped.…
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On Writing and Publishing: David Z. Morris and Berneta L. Haynes
Shortly after the release of David Z. Morris’ debut novella, in night we coax things out of hidden shapes, Waking Writer’s editor sat down with him to discuss their writing journeys and the experience of publishing their first books. Berneta: What have you written so far? David: I’ve made my living as a writer, in…
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What is a Novel?
No one says a novel has to be one thing. It can be anything it wants to be, a vaudeville show, the six o’clock news, the mumblings of wild men saddled by demons. Ishmael Reed
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Festival of the Pale – An Excerpt from Jesse Teller’s Mestlven
The Pale, the goddess of death, fixed her rotting eyes squarely on the city of Mestlven where grew a darkness, patient and terrible. Her murder lifted from the battlefields of Corlene to swoop and brood on Mestlven’s roofs and scream at her citizens. Enormous crows, two feet tall with four-foot wingspans, terrorized the city and…
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Stef Rzysko, author of The Rhino That I Know
When and why did you begin writing? I began writing at University where I studied illustration and animation. On a course which was obviously focused on the artwork and the concept, I found myself spending an inordinate amount of time perfecting the text or the script. In my head, the writing and the text were…
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#ThingsOnlyWomenWritersHear, Queer Graphic Novels, and more…
How a self-published author inspired by Stephen King knocked his idol from the top spot on Amazon (CNBC) It was King who first inspired Jones to try writing. “He was, I think, probably the single reason that I started writing, to be honest,” Jones tells CNBC. “He’s definitely a role model.” So it felt almost surreal…
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The Illusions of Dialogue – Guest Post by Jesse Teller
I came from a family of storytellers, I mean, gifted storytellers. They could pick you up and lift you into a tale like none other I have ever known. I apprenticed under them, and it made me the writer I am. I have been telling stories all my life and writing for most of my…
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Books are Magic…
What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you’re inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly…
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