Sitemap - 2023 - Counter Craft
Processing: How Ed Park Wrote Same Bed Different Dreams
Processing: How Bennett Sims Wrote Other Minds and Other Stories
Your Novel Should Be More Like Moby-Dick
Y'all Wanna See a Death of the Author Body?
Underpinning Your Horror in the Uncanny
Processing: How Dan Sinykin Wrote Big Fiction
Some Surreal Books from Around the World
Write for Your Best Readers Instead of Your Worst Readers
That Viral "Most Books Sell < 12 Copies" Claim Again
Fantastic Modes; Or, Is Magical Realism Just Urban Fantasy?
Algorithm America (a short story)
What Algorithms Can't Tell You about Art
On the State of Literary Magazines
Better Said than Dead: Quick Tips on Dialogue Tags
Processing: How Henry Hoke Wrote Open Throat
How Literature Lasts (and Popular Myths of Popularity)
Goodreads Has No Incentive to be Good
The Loquacious Precision of Cormac McCarthy
Yes, Metaphors Should Actually Make Sense
Readers Aren't Flocking to Chatbot Novels Just Yet
The Endgame for A.I. Is Clear: Rip Off Everyone
Calculating When Your Book Will "Earn Out"
Lit Mags and Money (or the Lack of It)
Ye Olde Fantasy Language Problem
Publishing Numbers Big and Small
On "Prose-Forward" Writing and the Pleasures of Different Genre Conversations
What Do People Really Mean by "Invisible Prose"?
Friday Sundries: Hugo Awards, ChatGPT's "Last Hope," and Dahl De-Bowdlerized
The Flood of ChatGPT Crap About to Clog Up Publishing
The Roald Dahl Edits Aren't About Anything Except Corporate Profits
The Unnecessary Is the Only Thing Necessary in Art
A Literary Fairy Tale Syllabus
Processing: How Martin Riker Wrote The Guest Lecture
Maybe the Book Doesn't Need to Be "Disrupted" in the First Place?