life goal: infamous recluse
https://youtu.be/mDxNxcu2j9k This is going to be very quick, because I can’t tell it slowly.Your Hand in Mine, We'll Be All Right So this is an old reading (previously talked about here) of "Your Hand in Mine, We'll Be All Right," originally done for Flash Fiction Online's 10-year anniversary, that I noticed was down for the... Continue Reading →
In light of Last Week Tonight's report this week on corn farming in America: https://youtu.be/MI78WOW_u-Q?si=UUBZp5uk5G0vD9Im --I thought it might be time to bring back an oldie-but-a-goodie, my pastiche/sequel (from way back in the FORGOTTEN TIME of 2020) of Terry Bisson's "They're Made Out of Meat": Read more...
(Reposting a 2013 post from the Anna Katherine co-tumblr) How my fix-this-later notes usually look, versus what I have been reduced to.
– a kiss of youth and love. (Oh, Byron, you are so dreamy.) (originally posted in 2010 on annakatherine.com, and reposted in 2013 on the Anna Katherine co-tumblr) I often think that the kiss, rather than the sex scene, is the primary romantic force of the romance novel. For me, a sex scene is emotional, sure, but for the most... Continue Reading →
(Reposting a 2013 post from the Anna Katherine co-tumblr) Some free writing advice, for what it’s worth: Don’t worry about writing a clever description – just describe. She had fine eyes tells you a hell of a lot more than like a Gucci at a half-off sale, she was pressed for service OR WHATEVER.
(Reposting a 2013 post from the Anna Katherine co-tumblr) Here, have some really straightforward, practical thoughts about plots and plotting. Of which I have way too many, btw. (Previous nuts and bolts caveats apply, naturally. Assume I have so many thoughts about this stuff because I’ve fucked it up pretty often.) :::: 1. A short story is... Continue Reading →
(Reposting a 2013 post from the Anna Katherine co-tumblr) Because I just did this, here you go: Some simple ways to start a story, particularly if you don’t know what you want to write about, but you know you need to write something. (For money, for practice, for mental health, for whatever.) Standard caveats apply. 1. The... Continue Reading →
(Reposting a 2013 post from the Anna Katherine co-tumblr) A friend of mine awhile back asked the aether for some practical, straightforward writing advice, which I assumed meant nuts and bolts stuff. This is what I ended up writing to her. (Caveat emptor: 1. The reason advice looks contradictory is because it literally is different for... Continue Reading →
It is sometimes said that you can't teach someone how to write comedy. I think that's a bit silly, though -- I think it's more accurate that you can't teach someone how to write something universally funny, because humor is tied so closely to our hindbrain animal limbic system electrical zoomies that what each of... Continue Reading →
I'm stretching my wings, folks, and taking 20+ years of experience writing, editing, and publishing -- not to mention three-odd years' worth of podcast hosting -- to the classroom. This spring I'll be teaching a practical, nuts-and-bolts approach to writing short fiction at Assabet After Dark, the largest adult continuing education program in metrowest Massachusetts.... Continue Reading →
Katherine Crighton 