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New ‘Writing Project Assessment Worksheet’ From Monarch Writers
Join Our New Mailing List – The Monarch FlutterStorm
The Monarch Writers are starting a new email dispatch - The Monarch FlutterStorm - The Monarch Writers, your friendly St. Louis-based neighborhood Writers' Group, is coming out of hibernation after the pandemic to start in person meets once again, and we want to find better ways to connect with you! We want to invite you... Continue Reading →
Fans on Twitter Are Creating a New Kind of Story You’ve Never Seen Before – Reblog from ElectricLiterature.com
Fans on Twitter Are Creating a New Kind of Story You’ve Never Seen Before These elaborate multimedia fanfictions are more intimate than traditional works—and they've acquired their own enthusiastic communities Screenshot from The Runners AU On July 1, 2020, in the middle of worldwide lockdown, fans of up-and-coming indie rock band The Runners were posting... Continue Reading →
APRIL 2021 Writing Feature Focus: A CHARACTER In Search Of…
Each month The Monarch Writers, here on our .com and also on our Discord, will focus on a specific theme. This month it is CHARACTER. And specifically how to make strong characters. First, to sum up the issue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nr037owyBqM&t=16s So what is the issue of character? A character must have DESIRE. And a character, in... Continue Reading →
Radio Drama Style Podcasts To Check Out
I am a regular listener to a lot of old radio drama type shows, with favorites including Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce), CBS Radio Mystery Theater, and classics like The Whistler, The Creaking Door, and others. Last year around Halloween I listened to a much more recent radio drama style podcast titled 'LIMETOWN'... Continue Reading →
REVIEW: BRING ME THE HEAD OF QUENTIN TARANTINO BY JULIÁN HERBERT – Reblog from Entropy Magazine
REVIEW: BRING ME THE HEAD OF QUENTIN TARANTINO BY JULIÁN HERBERT Bring Me the Head of Quentin Tarantino by Julián Herberttranslated from Spanish by Christina MacSweeneyGraywolf Press, November 2020Bookshop / Amazon192 pages – fiction, short story Review by Felice Arenas An ode to, inspired by, or Western Unioned from the same morality-subverting center of its namesake’s films, Bring Me... Continue Reading →
A Few Places To Submit Work Going Into the Early Months of 2021
https://www.fiyahlitmag.com/ FIYAH is a quarterly speculative fiction magazine that features stories by and about Black people of the African Diaspora. This definition is globally inclusive (Black anywhere in the world) and also applies to mixed/biracial and Afro-appended people regardless of gender identity or orientation. https://apparitionlit.com/ https://apparitionlit.com/ We publish poems and stories between 1k-5k words in... Continue Reading →
In Search of the Present – On Writing and the Mindful Now
I am at a point in my work on my novel project right now where I am having a lot of ideas, and want to keep track of them. I already do multiple bulletin boards and note taking methods, from notebooks as I read to apps like Google Keep which is easy to stay on... Continue Reading →
The Important Thing (In NaNoWriMo, As In Others) Is To Not Give Up
Read the advice of NaNoWriMo Coach for getting over the mid-way slumps Rosanne A. Brown here. A quote that caught my eye, particularly since I make a joke of telling people I dropped out of a college whose motto is 'If something is worth doing, it's worth doing well', is this quote by G.K Chesterton: ... Continue Reading →
Revisiting 8Tracks.com and The Joy of Curated Playlists – Great For Writing Inspiration
CHECK OUT THE MUSIC PLAYLIST CREATION SITE 8TRACKS.COM There are millions of user-created playlists for every type of mood and conception. It's a really great place for artists and music lovers. I made a bunch of playlists back in the day and am just today revisiting my profile. Below is my playlist for writing muse.... Continue Reading →