Category: Craft Essays
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I organized a poll, and out of 4 choices, Top 10 Flash won. So here are my top ten stories from the year, pieces that teach a lot about structure, theme and imagery, apart from being excellently crafted. Happy Reading!
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Fragmentation in structure, in narrative, and in character-building can be divided into three parts: 1) Fragmentation in structure: Meaning a narrative text is subtly nudging you to pay attention through the way it is told. We’re not taking of hybrids, experimental or hermit-crab forms here, but traditional forms, and yet, by moving around the pieces,…
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Fragmentation in structure, in narrative, and in character-building can be divided into three parts: 1) Fragmentation in structure: Meaning a narrative text is subtly nudging you to pay attention through the way it is told. We’re not taking of hybrids, experimental or hermit-crab forms here, but traditional forms, and yet, by moving around the pieces,…
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Fragmentation in structure, in narrative, and in character-building can be divided into three parts: 1) Fragmentation in structure: Meaning a narrative text is subtly nudging you to pay attention through the way it is told. We’re not taking of hybrids, experimental or hermit-crab forms here, but traditional forms, and yet, by moving around the pieces,…
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Reading and Understanding Contract Documents MONTHLY BLOGPOST Thank you all for the support as my author-website-writing-craft-blog turned two on July 15. I took the occasion to highlight 3 Reasons Why Author Websites get You EYEBALLS AND WORK — a video essay, mailed to subscribers already. As you may have guessed, this month’s blogpost is about…
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MONTHLY BLOGPOST I live in a lush green pocket of the city. Monsoons make it even more verdant, inviting hitherto unknown bird species to my window sill, and which only leave me so I can enjoy the abundant joyous theatre above: rain clouds dancing to a unique rumbling, and then the bounty of rain itself.…
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I invited Sage Tyrtle to talk about “The King of Elkport” , to tell us a bit about the inspiration behind it, what readers should expect, and any similar books that we have read. Here’s what Sage wrote-in for the Guest Blogpost: The inspiration for this book came from thinking about the way rich people…
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This month, somehow, I managed a wonderful mix of publications: CNF in Fatal Flaw Literary, Fiction in The Citron Review and Column in trampset. On the new writing front, sadly, not looking good. I felt encouraged with a truckload of nearly-there decline notices (which are really heartbreaking at the point of receiving them). As they…
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Let’s look at pieces that stand apart from the others and marvel us. Those that make the EiC exclaim: Good Gracious! This is Excellent! Obviously, these are ones litmags get very little of and could do with some more.
