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rozmorris · 1 year

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‘Let the narrative bend where it wants to’ – memoirist Joseph Lezza @lezzdoothis

Joseph Lezza’s first published book is a grief memoir, surrounding the death of his father from pancreatic cancer and the years that followed. It began as an MFA assignment to write a lyric essay, and once he’d finished he found he needed to write another and another, until he had a whole book, full of unexpected turns, resolutions and reconciliations – I’m Never Fine: Scenes And Spasms on…

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#Becoming a writer #CNF #grief memoir #how I made my writing career #how to write a grief memoir #how to write a memoir #Joseph Lezza #LGBTQ+#memoir #MFA #narrative non-fiction #personal essays #Russell T Davies #Vine Leaves Press

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chantireviews · 16 days

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The 2023 JOURNEY Book Awards WINNERS for Overcoming Adversity in Narrative Non-Fiction

The Journey Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Overcoming Adversity in Narrative Non-Fiction and Memoir. The Journey Book Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (CIBAs). Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring true stories about adventures, life events, unique…

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therealimintobooks · 1 year

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Book Tour Featuring *DAWGS: A True Story of Lost Animals and the Kids Who Rescued Them* by Diane Trull with Meredith Wargo @iReadBookTours #guestpost #giveaway

Book Details:Book Title: DAWGS: A True Story of Lost Animals and the Kids Who Rescued Them by Diane Trull with Meredith WargoCategory: Adult Non-Fiction (18+), 256 pagesGenre: Narrative Non-Fiction Publisher: Citadel Press – Kensington Publishing Corp. Release date: March 2020Content Rating: This non-fiction book is rated PG. There is one scene in which the shelter was broken into and…

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writersrumpus · 1 year

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Five Flavors of Nonfiction

Writers of nonfiction for children will be better informed about current ways of thinking about nonfiction after reading this book's menu of options.

Children’s book writers are discovering that there is a smorgasbord of nonfiction flavors to choose among. Recently this menu of options has been wonderfully taste-tested in a new book. Although aimed at teachers and librarians, this book also satisfies any writer’s appetite to know. In 5 Kinds of Nonfiction, award-winning nonfiction author Melissa Stewart teams up with educator Marlene Correia…

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#5 kinds of nonfiction #featured post #Inspiration #narrative non-fiction #picture books #writing tips

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khyatigautam · 2 years

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The Art of Supreme | AB Kaura | Book Review

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Notion Press; 1st edition (10 May 2021) Language ‏ : ‎ English Paperback ‏ : ‎ 248 pages The Art of Supreme is a coming-of-age novel about our protagonist, Karn, who discovers universal intelligence along his journey. Through his journey, we learn about egotistical emotions and how we can unlearn the concepts passed down to us to live a more fulfilling life. Partly based on a…

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#AB Kaura #Book Reviews #Intelligence #Narrative Non-fiction #The Art of Supreme

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luceafarul-de-dimineata · 20 days

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"What will you do once I pass away?" The question came out of the blue, but such strange questions were par for the course at this point. Gamigin was nuzzling to your neck when you spoke, but he wasn't phased.

"I'll revive you. Death won't be permenent in Paradise Lost for as long as I'm around to stop it." You were running a hand through his blue hair, playing with a strand of it.

"But what if you don't revive me? If you can't revive me? What will you do then?" The dragon stopped kissing up your neck and shifted so he would be at eye level with you on the bed. He looked confused and hurt which almost made you ashamed that you asked the question.

"My staff can bring anyone back from the dead."

"Ok, but I age and demons don't what about that? What if I get so old I want to die to end my mysery."

Gamigin looked even more confused by your words. He didn't quite understand why humans aged so fast. He pouted in thought and stared at the ceiling. After a while, with a stern voice he asks "How long do humans usually live for?"

You try to remember your anthropology classes and what the avarage age of death was for your country, but you just can't put your finger on it. "I don't know, 70 or something like that." "70! Only 70 years!?!" He pushed you to the bed and pinned you to it with a shocked expression. His mind was working overtime trying to calculate just how long that timespan felt like.

Finally, he turns to you and holds your hands softly kissing them both. He stares determined in your eyes. "You are going to have the most exciting life ever. I promise you. What do you wish to do before you die?"

You've never seen him so stern, but the question was one that you've many times asked yourself yet never seemed to have an answer to. Gamigin's glare was starting to intimidate you so you gently slap his face.

"Don't look at me like that! You're making me nervous! I don't know what I want to do before I die. I just kind of want to see where life takes me."

Gamigin smiles like he usually does and pins you to the bed with a hug. His staff, which he kept in one hand at all times, jiggled lively as you both collapsed on the cottage bed.

"Well then, I want to cuddle with you and rewatch the 'How to Train Your Dragon' trilogy. And then we can play blackjack and whoever wins has to wash the dishes after dinner!" Gamigin proclaimed before kissing your cheek and nuzzling into it.

"Who tought you blackjack?" It was strange hearing your usually innocent boyfriend putting forth the idea of blackjack of all things.

"My brother Buer. He also thought me the dishes strategy as well. Jokes on him, I won." His giggle was contagious and you two ended up just cuddling and watching movies for the better half of the night.

If your relationship with Gamigin thought you anything, it was that you didn't have to live through bombastic experiences to enjoy life. You were having the time of your life just being close to him.

#whb #what in hell is bad #whb gamigin #whb fluff #whb x reader #I'm experimenting with writing formats #to see which ones I like the best #for now I can say that I love writing dialog #but I struggle with narrative and especially serious one #let's hope practice will improve on this issue over time #and you'll get to see it!#did you guys know I'm a published author of non fiction #crazy world out there #if you read all of this through #hi #you're really cool #thank you for caring about my stuff

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soldier-poet-king · 6 months

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Mmmmm reading systems collapse and the deep persistent ache abt murderbot and ART's friendship. Btw. If u even care.

#fran reads #head full of many thots but i need to finish the book first #but fundamentally. their friendship is absolutely my fave thing about the series #i am. very attached to them.#but like. emotions. non human personhood. extreme anxiety risk assessment constantly running #too many big bad emotions idk how to process so i am going to watch media about it #and then explain my life experiences via narrative features from said media bc idk how else to be a person or relate to the world #like!!! i get it!!!! my awkward not a real person ass is out here like!!!! i do that!!!!#its not bc i dont want to live and have real experiences its bc idk how and i was a weird isolated kid and a neurodivergent adult #and thats how i understand the world!!!#it is v big and scary and terrible and beautiful and having a frame of reference via fictional narrative to process ur owj experiences #its crucial????#and i don't mean in a terminally online cannot separate ficiton from reality way #i mean in a storytelling is what ppl do way. not just to be entertained. but to reflect ourselves and understand ourselves. and each other!!#im!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!#ART's you know i am not kind. to mb when it insists it wouldve been kinder to kill it #I WEPT

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tippenfunkaport · 5 months

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When I first started in fandom, for whatever reason I decided making fankids was like… too cringe for me. Like that was the arbitrary line I drew of what was too deep into fandom for me.

Anyway, think of this when I post my fankid drawings later because they represent me surrendering what is left of my dignity and fully surrendering to the cringe.

#honestly a lot of this was just that my early fandom experience was being surrounded by people who were ONLY into their fankids #to the point where they barely cared about the canon characters or killed them off entirely #and I felt like then what even is the point of being here if you're like that?#and no judgement if you're OC obsessed it's just like I have a whole back catalog of original characters so I personally didn't Get It #but then I needed to create some for narrative necessity and i was like eh this might as well happen #but you'll notice even my fankid stuff is still fully from the pov of the canon characters bc they are the ones I care about most #but I understand the OC / fankid thing better now in that it's training wheels for a lot of people #and it's great a great way to test drive until you're ready to create a character from scratch #or for people who have no interest in making content to contribute to the fandom space by commissioning art of their little guys #or to play in the fandom space without the confines of canon by making it their own #so be cringe and free everyone and have fun #though I will forever think about the time someone joined one of the non-fandom writing servers #and asked why we didn't have a channel to talk about OCs #and we had to gently explain that we were all writing original fiction all of every single one of our characters were 'OCs'#fandom is really a different world sometimes

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not-an-alien-scientist · 1 year

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The SCP wiki is so fucking huge I don't even know if there is a strategy to reading it. Shockingly listening to deathstep is how I managed to get into SCP stuff... not videos games or anything, just the music genre deathstep. .... 939's still my favorite thus far after reading more. The part with the baby 939 is delightfully horrifying and nothing else on the wiki has beat that yet.

#scp #not humans are space orcs #but one of the only other type of fiction i like #non narrative #cool format #etc #so i thought id spew my thoughts on my fiction/writing blog

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fellhellion · 11 months

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Literally gnawing on that one bit of emotional honesty from Miguel where he hears Gwen helplessly say she has no idea how to fix this - and that’s what shakes him - giving that wry reply about her joining the club

#the club of having no idea where to even begin fixing your mistakes #men will literally embrace being doomed by the narrative and resent the appearance of hope because they believe they’ve given up too much to #avert their course now #instead of going to therapy </3 #tunes talks spiderverse #also that moment where he tells Miles he understands the grief #AND HE DOES! it’s perhaps the first moment of sincere non tainted by hostility moment they have #but it’s also like god man. you tell yourself you could give up one to save many #AND YOU COULDNT #you couldn’t abandon your daughter #you kept trying to save her even when the world was crumbling around you #like head in hands deep down u still know what it means to be spiderman #and you resent miles for being that reminder #for still having the hope you used to #anyways having a normal time about this fictional man 🤘#miguel o’hara

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homostacis · 6 months

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imma write down some quick thoughts on narratives as living things real quick

Deltarune has got itself a really healthy narrative, alright? It's thriving, its guiding the path in the background, tangible yet invisible. It's the ferris wheel scene for Noelle and Susie -- a convenient set-up marks the deft hand of fate moving to direct the pieces and roles into their correct places, narrative framing, art. Its vigor is its emotion, the satisfaction one feels and it fuels within a desire to live and experience with it. You can feel it within every sequence, the warmth of a song for you.

And then you got the narrative in something like Devil May Cry 5. This narrative is rotting, full decay. The characters must play roles that don't fit them, it's oozing and slippery and they fall into patterns, moving further along with no ability stop what is mundane now. It's later seasons of sitcoms, stories repeating again and again except that it's not a cycle, it's a spiral, and it's been spoiling this entire time. Why do Dante and Vergil have to fight? It's because they're the protagonist and antagonist of an action game that refuses to ever let them die because it has one story it wants to tell. As the narrative dies they corrode with it, continuing to play out their roles and awaiting to be fossilized in them.

so like, games where the narrative is a living, breathing thing am i right?

#gonna delete later but like idk i think i like dramaturgy lol #btw this isnt me being like dmc 5 narrative is bad because its actually the opposite #part of the reason i think nero works so well is him kind of being the one to finish the old narrative off for good #due to his desire to keep dante and vergil from killing each other and to save them both #he essentially kills the narrative and forces himself into the role of protagonist and thus frees dante and vergil from their narrative rol #dmc 5 is a lot about the new generation pushing past the stuck-in-the-past old generation and forging a new path forward #which is non-coincidentally exactly what nero is probably gonna be doing as the main character of dmc going forward #basically its totally intentional for the narrative to be this way and part of what the game is doing as a reflection of the dmc franchise #deltarune come home i know chapters 3 and 4 are gonna have some crazy shit #and unlike dmc in deltarune it might genuinely be canon? like the dark worlds are so tied to fiction and we got stuff like the traffic-jam #this is how i justify plot-convenience! except i dont even need to justify it i genuinely think like dmc its an intentional choice #that directly feeds into the exploration of fate and freedom in-universe and linear story vs player choice out-of-universe #i love storytelling man

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chantireviews · 17 days

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The 2023 HEARTEN Book Awards WINNERS for Inspiring & Uplifting Non-Fiction

The Hearten Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Uplifting & Inspiring Non-Fiction and Memoir. The Hearten Book Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (CIBAs). Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring true stories about adventures, life events, unique experiences,…

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ratskool · 11 months

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from now on whenever i hear someone bitch and moan about how AI can do creative work better than them I shall respond as such: "KNUCKLE THE FUCK UP BITCH AND PUT YOUR BRAIN TO GOOD USE JUST BECAUSE WE INVENTED CALCULATORS DOESN'T MEAN WE STOPPED DOING MATH AS WELL"

#ai art #chat gpt #non artists are mostly pushing this narrative bc they have never have had an original creative thought in their life #i hope to god you doomers see this and i hope to god ai “artists” learn that doing art of any kind requires skill #skill that has to be put to good use and exercised #oh you can't come up with anything original? stop only consuming cartoons and making fan art and fan fiction and learn how to make shit #getting tired now of being told that my writing is so original yeah bitch because i hated writing fan fics and drawing fan art

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iwonderwh0 · 1 year

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I need an advice from experienced Tumblr/ao3 users about tumblr etiquette + some more questions

What I want to do is to post a fan fiction, but the catch is that it is not linear. Instead there are a couple different branches of story reader can choose from that'll lead to different outcomes. So my question is, what is the best way for me to do so?

I thought of posting every branching piece separately as posts and connect them via links to those different posts on Tumblr. This looks like something that'll work. The drawbacks of that method is that it'll create a bunch of posts under the same hashtags and I'm not sure if it's okay think for me to do (is it?). Should I just abandon the hashtags on most of them to reduce their number on the feed under those hashtags?

Now about AO3. I've never ever used it to post anything and have no idea what it allows writers to do. If you know anything about how it is possible to realise branching story on ao3 please tell me, because I have no clue.

Currently I'm just writing everything in .md files so it's not a problem to connect them in a meaningful easy to follow way. I'm thinking of leaving a link to the whole fic as a folder, but this one method is so niche I don't believe anyone would like to actually use it as it requires some extra steps.

Please help

#dbh fanfiction #fanfic #fan fiction #writing help #fic #advice #I summon experienced tumblr users #multiple endings #ao3fic #ao3 #please help #tumblr etiquette #detroit become human #non linear narrative #multiple choice #multiple choice fiction #reader's choice #multiple timelines #interactive novel

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fiercelyliterate · 2 years

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GOD how has anyone not written historical lesbian fiction about the AAGPBL???? and if they have, HOW have I not read it 30,000 times?

#a few years ago I read like 5 non-fiction books about it and they were all very good #but I want narrative I want lesbians I want kissing #AND baseball

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thefolioarchives · 2 years

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Reading of 2021, part X

I decided to revive this because, to be honest, it's been bugging me that I never finished the thing. November came along and we moved house and I started a new job and you forget certain stuff. But I was also quite proud of all the books I read last year and I also read some absolute, soul-wrenching, joy-filling bangers (as what follows will be a testament to) and I wanted to share that.

46. Redhanded: An Exploration of Criminals, Cannibals, Cults, And What Makes a Killer Tick by Suruthi Bala and Hannah Maguire

I've been a follower of Redhanded the podcast for a few years and I find Bala and Maguire's approach to true crime to be a breath of fresh air. It's on-the-nose, inquisitive, challenging and funny. They manage to cover a lot of cases I've never heard of before and that their episode covering the story of Robert Maudsley ("The Most Dangerous Prisoner in Britain") is the show at its best, is a hill I will gladly die on. Their book follows the same kind of style as their podcast and their "identity" is retained throughout. Each chapter follows a particular topic related to killers and serial killers, like "Genetics" and "Misogyny", where the girls dive into the science behind it, using a famous case as a "study". There were a few cases I hadn't heard of in this book and a lot of cases that are covered in the podcast. I found the chapter on Childhood to be particularly interesting and feel like I'm wrestling internally with the challenges posed by diagnosing children with psychopathy. The chapter on misogyny really made my piss boil (the incel chapter) and I found the chapter on cults also very fascinating. My two criticisms at this juncture is the decision to put in italic certain things in brackets, but not all. It was a stylistic choice that made the formatter in me twitch. Second criticism: The title promises an exploration of cannibals, as well as criminals and cults, yet I couldn't find a single mention or case of a cannibal in this book. Did I have a stroke and completely miss it? Is it a joke of some kind they've addressed in the podcast but at the end so I wouldn't have listened to it because I don't listen to it all the way to the end because I don't care to listen to everyone who's joined as Patreons? Either way, it was a great start to October!

47. The Red Tree by Caitlin R. Kiernan

The cover of this novel suggests more of a romance/supernatural narrative than the meta, digressing, nightmare-sequenced, nuanced tale Kiernan actually takes you on. Sarah Crowe has left her home state of Alabama for Providence, New England, in the hopes of finding the time and peace to write her next novel (now, if that doesn't make you want to read it, I don't know what will). She never starts the novel (obviously, what did you expect?), but what she does start is a journal of her time at the farm she now calls her current residence and the red oak tree, source of many a tragedy over the past 300 years. I'm still new to horror in fiction and I don't know that I've discovered exactly what terrifies me (apart from that one scene in VanderMeer's Authority when Control finds Whitby in that crawlspace/utility closet, crouching next to a cosmic horror mural, that scene will always send shivers down my spine), but I do know that I enjoy the creepiness of Kiernan's story. It reminds me of when I read The Haunting of Hill House for the first time, how everything was just slowly becoming more and more creepy, slowly edging towards some resolution after considerably, almost unbearable teasing. Coupled with this creepiness and unease, is Crowe as a writer. The prose is almost stream of consciousness at times, grounded by countless references to literature, art and popular culture. I, personally, enjoy when authors use references to other works in their writing. There's something comforting about the fact that people want to reference back to other works as if to say, This is not new, I did not have this idea first, to show how nothing is original and that things work in spirals and not a linear fashion. Which again is what Kiernan also does with the history and horror of The Red Tree. There is the sense that history will always repeat itself, but also that different places in history will touch each other, interact with each other. There is also something inherently primal to Kiernan's narrative and the horrors we encounter, which has been somewhat of a relief after my tumble down the "Christian" rabbit hole, so to speak. Not necessarily a retreat back to nature, although the story revolves around a tree, but to something more than that. Nature is maybe too simplistic a word for what we encounter here. Either way, I absolutely loved it and never wanted it to end.

48. The Hollow Places by T. Kingfisher

What I've ultimately been intending with creating this catalogue of the books I've read in a year, is to remember the truly good ones. To put down my feelings about them on the paper, to reflect on what I've read so it can stay with me a little longer. This book is definitely one of those and I could not put it down. After finalising her divorce, Kara moves into her Uncle Earl's Wonder Museum, whilst working freelance as a graphic designer trying to get her life together. The adventure that follows is a page turning, deeply unsettling mind-bender. I haven't underlined the pages in a novel this much since I was studying for my master's. I kept going back and forth in the narrative, to make sure I'd understood everything and given myself enough time to reflect on what I was reading. The prose is hilarious and Kingfisher is very generous with her characters, they're all given time to truly shine on the page. Uncle Earl immediately stole my heart with his inherent kindness and love for Kara; Simon (the barista next door unwittingly thrust into an alternate dimension quest) becomes a voice of reason throughout the novel, the voice of every horror fan who've screamed at the TV because the characters in the film opened a door no one in their right minds would open; Beau, "the benevolent Ghengis Khan" of cats, making cats proud everywhere. In sum, reading this book felt like an absolute treat. I'm finally anchored in a genre where every reference felt like honouring a close friend and there is something darn special about that. I can't wait to read more of Kingfisher, she might be (definitely is) my new favourite author.

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