#Fiction

Brandon

blgtylr

James Wood really told Donna Tartt to grow up and turn into a real novelist in that review of The Goldfinch, lmfao WOW. Can you imagine? LMFAO "Donna. Put aside

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comewhatmaenad

I honestly find it creepy when people like this pop up with eloquent, well-written defenses of antis that seem sensible & likely to win over "normal" people who don't know

Robin Stevens

redbreastedbird

All reading is reading! I also wish well-meaning parents like this would realise that just because their child is a technically *good* reader doesn’t mean they need to be pushed

Tessa Dare

TessaDare

In retrospect, the RITA finalist with a Nazi hero should have been evidence enough that the award was irredeemable. I was on the RWA Board then. I’m ashamed and sorry

Pope Four Seasons Total Landscaping

jonathandunk

As editors we welcome criticism, and particularly the considered arguments in the recent discussions of our policy which I'll link below. Thinking abstractly they're perfectly reasonable statements – but arguments

Cynthia (Cina) Pelayo

cinapelayo

THREAD: I can’t stress this enough. Do you know how frustrating it was in my MFA when my professors would ask me to write about my inner city upbringing...when all

Zoe Gilbert

mindandlanguage

A thread: I've long been a fan of the fantastic in fiction, especially in short stories, but over the last month, as I’ve returned to my anthologies of weird, wondrous

PhatCat

fiddlersgreen92

To my Twitter Friends:Just for fun, without description or explanation, share a still or screenshot from your Favourite Movie in X Genre... by decade.Mark the shot with the decade, like

Maus (Writing comms open)

ContrastMinds

I don't get the whole AU drama with MDZS getting out of control.Like, we're all a bit ignorant on the topic, bc none of us is a Chinese gay cultivator

Samantha Shannon

say_shannon

This has reminded me of my deep, visceral discomfort with the phrase ‘becoming a woman’ (or ‘you're a woman now’) and how it ties womanhood inextricably to sex and childbearing.https://twitter.com/veschwab/status/1252986339957575680

Red

thedreadvampy

I was thinking just now about how I've never seen a piece of fiction about queer community and activism set in the 80s and 90s that centres lesbians - there's

saamaanya jeevi

SaamaanyaJ

A thread on my engagement with Fiction and "Pockets of Silences".A good book is climbing up a hill, if not a mountain. Its a collection of different slopes, rythms, intensities,

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aemetrine

Yeah hi I’m back again to talk about this thread because HOLY FUCK I GOT SOME THINGS TO SAY 1. Already starting off on a bad note. “Sexualizing minors is

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DantonSix

Have you heard of "slipstream" literature? Loosely, it's a cheap way to say "it's genre but also literature!" which it's depressing that we need to say that but here we

Cat Rambo

Catrambo

Listening to @rachelswirsky talk about using details and images in fiction and jotting down notes in my notebook. Some highlights from them so far: Description communicates something other than "the

theinscrutabledr3

theinscrutable3

What's the most old school D&D pre-D&D fantasy fiction?It's The Hobbit. A multiracial group is gathered for the purposes of treasure stealing, makes a journey across the wilderness and twice