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- Is Your Fiction an Affirmation or an Exploration?
A lot of what I see in the submission queue seems to be the first kind of story. These are works in which the writer has decided, before the story is written, where it is going to finish and what… Read more: Is Your Fiction an Affirmation or an Exploration? - Defining Success as a Writer
by Kellie Tatem On the first day of every semester, as the students come into my class, they see a question projected on the screen. It asks, “How do you define success?” I want them to think about it as… Read more: Defining Success as a Writer - Why Do So Many Emerging Writers Try To Sound Pretentious?
I’m sometimes amused by submissions we receive at Orca—or maybe the word is bemused—in which it’s clear the writer is being deliberately pretentious in an effort to impress our readers. “Merton was big and heavy, a ponderous rhinoceros of a… Read more: Why Do So Many Emerging Writers Try To Sound Pretentious? - Economist Daniel Kahneman’s Contribution to Fiction
This past week Nobel prize winning economist Daniel Kahneman passed away at the age of 90. He is best noted for having never taken a class in economics (he was actually a psychologist), and yet he, working with his partner,… Read more: Economist Daniel Kahneman’s Contribution to Fiction