Workshop Heretic
Sunday, March 31, 2024
Removing blind submissions is a terrible idea, but so is keeping them
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Let’s start by acknowledging that writing literary fiction is a bad deal financially for almost everyone right now. It’s bad for privileged ...
Saturday, February 10, 2024
Why this Super Bowl stings a bit
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I'm from northeast Ohio and grew up rooting for the Browns. When I moved to Maryland near Baltimore in 2004, I didn't really embrace...
Sunday, February 4, 2024
Have I been a low-key CNF guy all along?
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Despair has its advantages. I know I've said a dozen times in the last ten years that I was giving up writing fiction, but this current ...
Sunday, January 21, 2024
If my New Year's resolution was to remain ambivalent about writing, I'm nailing it
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For most of my life, when I've considered the ubiquitous question writers get asked about why they write, I've always thought of it ...
Thursday, December 7, 2023
Looking for life after literary fiction
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Can one Marie Kondo one's reading life? Decide to leave unread that which does not bring one joy? It seems obvious that one could, altho...
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Wednesday, November 1, 2023
Enough for now
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I've sworn I was finished with writing and blogging about writing and so on enough times now that nobody will take me seriously if I swe...
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Monday, October 30, 2023
Pulling at the fringes of the universe's tallis: "The Master Mourner" by Ben Ehrlich
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It's pretty obvious that "The Master Mourner" belongs to a class of stories that could be grouped under the category of "...
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