by runestone admin | Mar 11, 2025
Take a moment and picture your perfect writing session: in your house, a candle on your desk casting a cozy ambiance…or maybe you’re tucked inside a café, the whir of espresso machines providing a lively soundtrack. Wherever you are, words are gliding from your...
by runestone admin | Mar 5, 2025
Tin House $17.99 226 pages In the spring of 2024 Fiona Warnick published her debut coming-of-age fiction novel The Skunks at the publishing house Tin House. The Skunks follows the main character, Isabel, who recently completed her undergraduate degree from college....
by runestone admin | Aug 5, 2024
It’s no secret that Stephen King isn’t a fan of Stanley Kubrick’s adaptation of his novel, The Shining. King has been critical of the film ever since its release in 1980, and has reiterated that statement as recently as 2021. Despite this, many viewers and...
by runestone admin | Jul 29, 2024
As writers, we all know there will come a time in our fiction when we must end the life of a beloved character. So when is the right time to kill a character? It’s hard to pinpoint the exact moment when a writer knows it is time to end the storyline of a...
by runestone admin | Jul 22, 2024
Blackout, erasure, found, collage—these are all forms of poetry that find themselves through use of pre-written words. (For this post, I’ll use “found” as an umbrella term). While sometimes diminished as lesser literary forms—either due to their simplicity or to the...
by runestone admin | Jul 15, 2024
I got into Dungeons & Dragons because I was too scared to publish. Like many writers, I have a paralyzing fear of wide scrutiny, of my love and hard work being torn apart or rejected out of hand before an audience can even see it. Some of us have even...
