by RS Admin | Jul 9, 2015
As a creative writing student, I find that one of the hardest parts of writing is actually doing it—physically sitting down and writing something. The number of times I’ve promised myself that I’ll start writing every day, and then broken that promise the...
by RS Admin | Jul 7, 2015
The best thing I have read recently was not written recently. It was published in January of 2012 by Daily Science Fiction, an online journal which publishes science fiction and fantasy shorts. The story, called “Visiting Planet Earth”, is a short story written by...
by RS Admin | Jun 17, 2015
Your first thought: maybe today, maybe today will be the end. But as you fumble around under the comforter on your bed, fingers searching for the familiar ice-metal of your phone, you know. You just know. The writer’s block is still here. Of course, there are...
by RS Admin | Jun 15, 2015
Lynda Barry is not afraid to show herself on the page. Her alter-ego characters, like Marlys and the nearsighted sock monkey and Sea-Ma remind me of all the things we are to ourselves and the people in our lives. It’s a good reminder if you want to be the funk queen...
by RS Admin | Jun 10, 2015
There’s an odd stigma in the literary world that genre fiction holds less merit and is somehow less important, relying too heavily on bells and whistles that literary fiction writers refrain from implementing. I call bullshit through cupped hands through a megaphone....
by RS Admin | Jun 8, 2015
Many writers around the world attempt to search everywhere for new material. Many of us are also unfortunately constrained to searching only where we live, but this does not have to be a negative thing. No matter where you live, inspiration is around you. For...
