Writer’s Block, creative constipation, artist’s block – whatever you want to call it – is a big problem for writers, artists, musicians, and creative professionals. Some people say that ‘writer’s block’ doesn’t really exist – that you aren’t trying hard enough, don’t have a good routine, are quitting, etc. Others, including many suffering writers of… Continue Reading
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Genre Fiction: May Contain Queer
At risk of further alienating my straight male and female audiences (don’t worry, there’s stuff for you all as well!), I am here today to rant about one of my greatest passions/peeves – the way in that people generally expect genre fiction to be automatically heterosexual in theme, whereas ‘LGBT fiction’ is not fiction which… Continue Reading
Bildungsroman: A Coming of Age
I often hear stuff about growing up in the world, and these days, it seems that everyone is reading Young Adult fiction. A lot of these are ‘Coming of Age Stories’, which we literary types refer to as Bildungsroman, a term that literally means ‘Education Novel’ – a genre “…which purportedly defines a genre of… Continue Reading