As a writer, I spend a lot of time worrying about people who don’t exist. Like all those bright-eyed young heroes traipsing off to their first adventure. Sure, they look strong and noble at the start of their story, but what happens to them after they win the battle, defeat the great evil, and save the world? Do they all ride off into the sunset or board a ship to the Undying Lands? Are they okay?
I wrote my new novel,
The Bone Maker, because I couldn’t stop wondering about what would happen to those once-brave-and-strong heroes if they were called to save the world again. In
Dangerous Deceptions: Being the Latest Volume in the Entirely True and Wholly Remarkable Adventures of Margaret Preston Fitzroy, Maid of Honor, . at the Court of His Majesty (Palace of Spies) by Zettel, Sarah at AbeBooks.co.uk - ISBN 10: 0544074092 - ISBN 13: 9780544074095 - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt USA - 2014 - Hardcover
Hazlitt, Terraform, and
F&SF, plus multiple appearances in Year’s Bests, Yu has developed a reputation for boundary-breaking fiction, wonderful prose, and thorough research. Creatively, she isn’t interested in limitations: she writes poems, plays, novels, essays, stories, songs. She has worked on video games such as
Destiny and
Destiny 2. Her 2015
Uncanny Magazine story, “Woman at Exhibition,” was part of the Discenza-Straub exhibition at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco; more recently, she taught an Interactive Fiction seminar for Clarion West.
Her debut novel, steeped in research from books, Persian language study, detention center visits, travel, and more, is called
THE VALUE IN EXPERIMENTING. Nino Cipri offers some sff writing pointers. Thread starts here.
Included this slide in my final lecture for my creative writing class and am inordinately proud of it. pic.twitter.com/z5MDTSmXlm Nino Cipri, cthonic himbo boyfriend (@ninocipri) December 9, 2020
So yeah. Carve out time for weird shit that might not work, half-baked ideas, and absolute garbage dug out from the gutters of your brain. Assert your right to write for pleasure or exploration or the sheer joy of not caring about the end product. Fuck around and find out. Nino Cipri, cthonic himbo boyfriend (@ninocipri) December 9, 2020
John le Carre | File 770 file770.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from file770.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.