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A Year-End Writing Round-Up
A quick post on what I published slash awards eligibility slash a lot of links
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Processing: How Bennett Sims Wrote Other Minds and Other Stories
The author on literary traditions, writing habits, and “dilating individual moments to thick durations.”
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Lincoln Michel
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Your Novel Should Be More Like Moby-Dick
Why not put some whale facts chapters in your WIP?
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Y'all Wanna See a Death of the Author Body?
On the ways the corpse of the author is being bent out of shape
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Lincoln Michel
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Underpinning Your Horror in the Uncanny
Some craft tips on evoking the eerie in fiction
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Lincoln Michel
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Processing: How Dan Sinykin Wrote Big Fiction
"The book explains how American fiction works by following the money."
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New Novel and Other News
A genre-bending novel, illustrated story, and McSweeney's horror tale on the way
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Some Surreal Books from Around the World
A reading list for fans of the dreamlike, nightmarish, and downright bizarre
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