Author Archive: tyunglebower
Plays vs. Novels
Among my creative goals for 2016 are revising two novels, (in two different stage of completion.) I am also revising a stage play, which hopefully will get at least a local reading before the end of the year. Revising plays is so much different from revising novels. Both have their tedious qualities, and both have …
My Thoughts on Sex.
In my fiction, that is to say. Or, that is not to say. Sex has never appeared in any of my fiction. Then again, neither has Prague, backgammon or millions of other things. Yet I’ve found a noticeable difference between the reactions to never including sex in my work, and never including the other things. If you tell …
Author Followings
In my last post, I mentioned that for the sake of diversity in my reading, I should put forth a greater effort to seek out minority authors and their stories. Read the past to see why this is important, in my opinion. Yet it brings up a far less important but nonetheless interesting …
Diversity in Fiction
Appropriate on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day that I offer some thoughts on diversity, in this case in the fiction world. Let me open by saying that in no way does the level of diversity in fiction these days compare with the importance of Dr. King’s mission and the Civil Rights Movement. There are …
Duotrope
I finally joined. At least I’ll check it out for a few months. For those who don’t know, Duotrope is a sort of searchable database for writers. With it, one can search for magazines and journals and such that most match, in tone, style and length, the sort of piece one has written. A writer …
Ty Unglebower 