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Conscientious Workers: Meaning of a Dying BreedWhat’s the first word coming to mind when you hear conscientious? Though it might be objector (an interesting topic for another day), in...
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Review of South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki MurakamiI have a love-hate relationship with Haruki Murakami’s fiction. Well, alright, it’s much closer to love than hate, but I’ve been...
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Understanding Depth in FictionFor most people, depth in fiction sounds like a good thing, right? Just as we conflate vivid descriptions or rich vocabulary with high-quality...
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Thucydides and Linux: a Free or a Peaceful OS?You’ve got to admit, seeing Thucydides and Linux together in the same sentence isn’t something ordinary. “Linux” and...
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Old Memories Murmured in Dreams: Young Love PoetryAn old joke claims that thirty years of marriage is when she wonders what happened to the guy she married, while he wonders what happened to the...
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Review of A Naked Woman in the Snow by Dariush BeritanA Naked Woman in the Snow is a short-story collection by Dariush Beritan. Indeed, it’s a… short short-story collection, at about 80 pages...
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Let’s Make a JavaScript Poetry AssistantI’ll be honest with you: This JavaScript poetry assistant began as something meant entirely for my own use. I’m in the middle of a...
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The Importance of Enjoying Your ArtHave you ever noticed those ruthlessly competitive parents who live their own dreams through their children? Don’t you hate it when they...
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Letteract: a Free Card Game with WordsIt’s been a while since I made a game. In fact, if I’m not mistaken, the previous effort was about a year ago, with The Clock Village....
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Selfish Artists: Dynamics of A Peculiar ConceptAll people are selfish, artists or not. This might sound like a hot take, but it’s actually trite: When all are something, nobody is. In...
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What Is Fiction? The Problem of Defining RealityI love deceptively simple questions. “What is fiction?” definitely counts because, on the surface, it appears childishly obvious. One...
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Confidence and Creativity: What the Drumeo Sessions RevealI recently had an interesting, eye-opening experience regarding the connection between confidence and creativity. I was watching a video of a...
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Review of A Trick of the Light by Brandt RyanA Trick of the Light is a short film by Brandt Ryan – based on a short story by Pinckney Benedict that first appeared in the Zootrope literary...
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Pornography or Erotica? On Art’s Function, Purpose, and EssenceThe topic might sound unusual and, ironically enough, this too is part of the theme. Namely, we should be able to explore a topic as ubiquitous as...
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Strengths and Weaknesses as a Writer: a Pointless QuestionI recently had a hilarious (as it turned out) experience in a professional capacity. A Gothic writer wanted to hire a freelancer and I was one of...
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The Collapse of Criteria and the Prostitution of ArtIn an interview in 1991 (I will share the relevant excerpt translated/transcribed in this post), the Greek-French philosopher Cornelius...
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How to Write a Song Influenced by Postrock/Postmetal SensitivitiesThis ought to have simply been a “here’s how I write my music” post, but I decided to shift the focus a bit. So this became a...
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The Storytelling Cat – or, OK, I LiedLast December I said I’d likely never write another novel. And what did I start doing before a month had passed? Writing another novel....
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Shape-shifting in Nimona: Metaphor and the SubconsciousNimona is an animated film based on the graphic novel by ND Stevenson. It features “a girl” (more of this in a while) who can...
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Shame Will Save the World“Shame will save the world” – often translated as “Shame, the feeling that will save mankind” – is what the...
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Misunderstanding a Song – for Twenty YearsCertain art forms are easier to “misunderstand” than others. That is, it’s easier for any kind of authorial intention to become...
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Dealing with Lack of Skills in Writing: a Misleading PremiseWriting, drawing, composing music, and basically every form of art consists of two components: the artistic one and the technical one. That is, to...
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An Iambic Pentameter Checker in JavaScriptMy iambic pentameter generator has been one of the most popular posts of the blog. To be honest, I’m not sure if that’s still the case...
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Anger as Motivation: Revamping the Home for Fiction BlogYou might recall that some time ago I completely revamped the main site of Home for Fiction. In the same post I mentioned how one day, if...
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Writing Flash Fiction on the FlyToday’s post is the result of a challenge I decided to give myself: What would happen if I gave myself a writing prompt and 15...
