Tag Archives: fiction
What Rung on the Ladder is Your Character On?
Everyone is part of, and interacts with, organizations, institutions, groups and so on. Whether realistic or fantastic, narratives usually require at least some mention of social-political orders, large or small. What rung on the proverbial ladder are your characters on during the course of your story? I stumbled upon a website this weekend that makes …
Book Review: Gods in Everyman
I don’t usually post a book review here. I write them on Goodreads when I finish a book, usually, and leave it at that. Yet in this particular case I am posting it here because of a surprising connection to writers and writing. Gods in Everyman: A New Psychology of Men’s Lives and Loves, by …
The Pen is Mightier…For Now
I’m engaged in a long term writing project. Fiction. Beyond that I don’t want to reveal any content details, because I myself am not sure where if anywhere it will go. Plus all writing feels more fragile lately, and I don’t want to risk anything slowing what momentum I have going for it. So I …
The Ideal Place to Read My Books
Broadly, anywhere a reader could comfortably enjoy any or all of my books is the ideal place, of course. I’m not one to dictate such things. In truth, I don’t think there is much about my novels, or short story collections that would partner specifically well with a given setting or circumstance. In the bath, …
Slog.
The last few weeks, maybe months, I’ve been up against some internal resistance in my fiction writing. I once described this experience not as writer’s block, but as writer’s weight, and I seem to be suffering from a heavy dose recently. I don’t know exactly why, I wish I did, so I could fix it. As with …
Ty Unglebower 