Lit Drift: Storytelling in the 21st Century

Free Book Friday: Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology, Feeling Very Strange: The Slipstream Anthology, and The Secret History of Science Fiction, edited by James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel

JK Evanczuk — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 15:57:28 +0000

Welcome to this week’s Free Book Friday, wherein we give you the best titles in indie publishing for the low low price of nothing. Congrats to last week’s winner Mary Ann for getting free copies of The [...]

Writing About Grief: Just Tell the Truth

Jessica Digiacinto — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:00:27 +0000

Let’s be real, here: grief sucks. It sucks so, so bad. On the list of Emotions That Are Hard To Deal With, grief is at the top, florescent and harsh and without a hint of remorse. When you’re drowning in grief, it’s like the world stops, the air goes out, and all you can see and [...]

The Perils of Student Filmmaking and That Guy Who Escaped It

Alex Lam — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 23:56:50 +0000

There is a place where great screenplays go to die. Dialogue that had been analyzed for days – three or four words that had been written and rewritten to get the feeling just right – can meet its gruesome death on the lips of an unprepared actor that wasn’t right for the role to begin [...]

This Week: Open Letters to Punctuation Marks, Jane Austen’s Fight Club & More

JK Evanczuk — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 20:55:00 +0000

Open letters to punctuation marks. Ships that pass is a Tumblr of “fake, imagined, and literary missed connections posted to Craigslist and then re-posted here with real and actual responses to fake, imagined, and literary missed connections.” Alex Epstein’s 3 micro stories over at The Outlet are worth a read. “This is Just to Say That [...]

Free Book Friday: The Word of God & The Wall of America by Thomas M. Disch

JK Evanczuk — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 15:50:05 +0000

Welcome to this week’s Free Book Friday, wherein we give you the best titles in indie publishing for the low low price of nothing. Congrats to last week’s winner MRG for getting a free copy of The Cat’s Pajamas and [...]

This Week: Crash Report Fiction, Books Made From Blood, The Great Gatsby Video Game

JK Evanczuk — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 14:49:34 +0000

Every time his Photoshop crashes, filmmaker/developer Garrett Murray emails an original (and bitter) piece of flash fiction to the company instead of a crash report, spawning a genre which Mediabistro has dubbed “crash report fiction.” The Great Gatsby: classic novel and video game. I’m embarrassed to say I’m geeking out about this: Join Nick Carraway as you [...]

What Is To Be Done? Burning Questions About Employment for a Writer

Tanya Paperny — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 20:58:41 +0000

I just taught creative writing for a summer session to a group of very bright and talented 11th and 12th graders. It was a very intensive program, a five-day-a-week gig for three weeks, in which the students studied and wrote poetry, short fiction, dramatic scenes, and long prose (both fiction and nonfiction). It was very rewarding [...]

Free Book Friday: The Cat’s Pajamas and Other Stories by James Morrow

JK Evanczuk — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 16:04:24 +0000

Welcome to this week’s Free Book Friday, wherein we give you the best titles in indie publishing for the low low price of nothing. Congrats to last week’s winners Scott and Terri for getting a free copies of Walking Man by Tim W. [...]

This Week: Which Famous Writer Do You Write Like, One-Hit (Literary Wonders) & More

JK Evanczuk — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 21:16:52 +0000

Janet Fitch’s 10 (useful) tips for writers. HTMLGIANT on how to make your next reading more interesting (even if your work really isn’t). At long last, you can now take a quiz to determine which type of dystopian future is right for you. One-hit (literary) wonders. Which famous writer do you write like? Apparently I write like James Joyce, [...]

Free Book Friday: Walking Man by Tim W. Brown

JK Evanczuk — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 16:10:22 +0000

Welcome to this week’s Free Book Friday, wherein we give you the best titles in indie publishing for the low low price of nothing. Congrats to last week’s winners Claudia and Ben for getting a free copies of The Ballad of the Two Tom Mores by [...]