Anyone who's been
reading my thoughts on fiction for any Read More
Not exact matches
If you
think I might be
reading too much into this childish piffle, consider that any film which casts Garry Marshall, of all people, as a weaselly Harlan Ellison (or, more accurately and «subtly,» a weaselly science -
fiction writer named «Donald Harlan») obviously has something
on its mind.
And in a similarly placed story (
on the Times front page) a couple of weeks before Rich's, colleague Pam Belluck reported that a new study in the journal Science had found that «after
reading literary
fiction, as opposed to popular
fiction or serious nonfiction, people performed better
on tests measuring empathy, social perception and emotional intelligence — skills that come in especially handy when you are trying to
read someone's body language or gauge what they might be
thinking.»)
I got my Kindle
on the case and imported a selection,
thinking flash
fiction would make the perfect speedy bedtime
reading for people like me who always end up going to bed much later than they should do.
That being said, I
think (I'm not an expert
on Christian
Fiction... i don't
read it much) there can be a flux at any point due to whatever the Christian climate is at the time.
When I set about writing my next effort at
fiction, I didn't
think I had reached a level where I could feel comfortable that my writing was
on a close enough par with the thriller novels I was
reading.
I
think reading YA
Fiction exclusively is degrading the quality of literature that gets published
on a monthly or yearly basis.
When you complain about this
on message boards and article posts, excuse me, but stupid people who only do casual
reading or fantasy /
fiction,
think they represent the whole market, are tech experts who should ridicule more sophisticated readers simply because in their opinion an ereader is not a tablet.
Charli's prompt for this week's Flash
Fiction challenge of «Juxtaposition «(see full explanation below) had me
thinking, because it seems that a few of you would like me to carry
on with Muriel's story, which actually started out as Ken's... Continue
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If you bare your soul in your
fiction the same way you do in your WU posts, I
think we're definitely going to see some truly wonderful books with your name
on them, finally set free for the world to
read!
I
think this book's appreciation largely depends
on the audience's experience listening to the Self Publishing Podcast, whether or not they have
read The Dream Engine, whether or not they are looking to do a Kickstarter campaign any time soon, and whether or not they plan to utilize all the free (or paid) tools that expand upon this recounting of the
Fiction Unboxed project.
Many people
think of Flash
Fiction as a new arrival
on the
reading and writing scene, but in fact, many experts agree that its history reaches back at least as far as Aesop's fables.
I guess everyone wants a piece of trendy tech and, unfortunately, there aren't trendy tech
reading devices and I don't
think people are
reading long - form
fiction on their phones.