What to Do When You’re Not Joseph Smith
I’m like an autistic person who learns to read the emotions of others only through mapping the human face. I find the wheels and gears, the organs and veins of stories, and watch them work.
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The Cell Tome
How might the history of childcare have been different had the cell phone been invented earlier?
The reason you love independent Mormon magazines
Sometimes when I tell people what I do, they give me a funny look. “We already have the Ensign and the New Era,” they say, “why do we need an independent Mormon magazine?” The easiest way to understand the function of independent Mormon publications is to consider the state of Mormon fiction. The Church probably [...]
Upcoming Deadlines
Two contest deadlines are approaching. The deadline for the 2009 R. L. “Buzz” Capener Memorial Writing Contest in Comparative Religious Studies is May 31, 2009. First place receives $750. For the Brookie and D. K. Brown Fiction contest, entries are due June 30, 2009. Winners receive up to $400 each. Click here to see the [...]
How To Be Good
A few months ago I had a bit of time on my hands and wandered into my old haunt, Deseret Industries. In my early 20s, I would bring home a bag of used books on a weekly basis, but on this particular visit, only one book caught my eye: Nick Hornby’s novel How To Be [...]
On Endings
This is part of an inter-blog duo of posts on endings in fiction. The sister post, written by William Morris, can be found at A Motley Vision. Endings are hard. Of all the time I spend writing a piece, at least 40 percent of it will be spent on getting the ending just right. I [...]
The Author Bunny Exposed!
This is an edited version of a previous post. It will be appearing on page 3 of the Sunstone arriving in your mailbox very soon. I just wanted to show you what a good bout of editing and an illustrator can do for a piece. Note, for example, the streamlining of the prose and the [...]
The Myth of the Writer Genius
Do you believe in Santa Claus? The Easter Bunny? The Tooth Fairy? How about the Writer Genius? I believed in the Writer Genius for many years. He was this special, misunderstood person whose waters ran very deep. He was someone who had amazing novels and short stories swimming inside him like fish, just waiting to [...]
Jack Harrell’s Short Story “Calling and Election”
The very first story in the most recent issue of Irreantum is the 1st place winner of the 2007 Irreantum fiction contest, “Calling and Election” by Jack Harrell. The story is insightful and strange and beautiful and complex and challenging–and utterly Mormon. Not only does the piece exemplify good writing (lovely prose, striking imagery, strong [...]
Secrets of the Segullah Writing Contests
The deadline for Segullah’s poetry contest and the Heather Campbell Personal Essay contest is coming up–December 31, 2008. Really, there’s no big secret: it’s a writing contest, women send us their essays and poetry, we choose winners, we publish them. Straightforward. But here are a few things I didn’t realize before I entered it two [...]
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