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Tag Archives: crossed genres
Guest Post: Comedy Is a Ninja by Noah Sturdevant
Things are tense these days. I hope I’m not shocking anyone by saying that. There’s a lot of negative emotions going around, and people deal with them in different ways. One of the healthier ways is to engage with a good movie, game, book, or other form of media and get lost in a story. As a person empathizes with characters, they achieve catharsis as they experience their emotional journey together with the characters they empathize with. People enjoy dramas to release their sadness, they enjoy action to feel power over a world which often shows them to be powerless. Some enjoy horror for the endorphin rush, or to release pent up negative emotions in a more healthy way than going to the hardware store and looking for a chainsaw that’s light enough to chase someone with, yet not so light that it can’t get the job done.
Um, for example.
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Tagged comedy, crossed genres, genre fiction, guest post, humor in writing, noah sturdevant, quick draw
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The Million Writers Award – 2012
The Million Writers Award, which is a cool award for online fiction, is open for nominations until April 9. If you’ve got a favorite story that appeared online this year — yours or someone else’s — go nominate it! Continue reading
A Whole Mess of Kindle Reading for Under $20
Holy cow. Kindles are selling, selling, SELLING. So, uh, if you're looking for something of mine to read on your Kindle, here's some suggestions. Lightspeed Year One – For $5, you get not just two of my stories, but everything … Continue reading
Recent Online Reading: Short Notes about Short Stories
I loved Kris Dikeman’s Silent, Still and Cold in Beneath Ceaseless Skies. It has a high fantasy sensibility mixed with zombies, which always seems like a win-win to me. Also in this month’s issue is Jesse Bullington’s The Adventures of Ernst, Who Began a Man, Became a Cyclops, and Finished A Hero. Continue reading
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Tagged abyss & apex, ada milenkovic brown, alex dally mcfarlane, alter s. reiss, amal el-mohtar, beneath ceaseless skies, c.j. cherryh, colum paget, corinne duyvis, crossed genres, daily science fiction, gavin grant, high fantasy, j. kathleen cheney, jesse bullington, joselle vanderhooft, ken scholes, kij johnson, kindle, kristine dikeman, lightspeed magazine, mythpunk, online fiction, peter m. ball, philip brewer, redstone science fiction, rose lemberg, shweta narayan, strange horizons, tanith lee, therese arkenburg, tor.com, vylar kaftan, zombies
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