March 21, 2018
Part 1 is here WHAT IS CRAFT AND WHAT DOES IT DO, PART 2 12. Craft is admission to a club. But as a friend once told me, within the club there’s always another club. 13. Craft is teachable, but is rarely proficiently taught. 14. Revision is the craft through which a writer is able to say and shape who they are. 15. Craft, like the self, is made by culture and reflects culture, and can develop to ...
March 19, 2018
Solarpunk: Here's My Crew an interview with Alexander Weinstein - Tom Cassauwers: Do you know solarpunk, and if yes, what is your opinion on it? Alexander Weinstein: When I first heard about about Solarpunk, I thought: Yes, here’s my crew! Because for a while now I’ve been talking about the utopian story, and stories based on the central mechanism of joy and awe. How do we create the kind of future ...
February 26, 2018
Today we have a guest post from writer and teacher Michael Noll, who is the author of a new craft book: The Writer's Field Guide to the Craft of Fiction. Check it out for your classrooms and yourselves. It's from the great Austin indie press, A Strange Object, and is based off of Noll's popular blog/literary citizenship project, Read to Write Fiction. The Writer's Field Guide to the Craft of Fiction is a practical writing ...
February 12, 2018
Caitlin Cowan THE HORROR I. There are two black actors, so one is about to die, you say into your longneck, a microphone for what you know. The awful mathematics of films like these: the other is always the first to go. Here we are at our worst, culling those we can’t know from our plots like weeds—the rising action, our greedy ascent, is built on their ...