Originally posted at Uncreated Conscience.

Welcome to day 2 of JJ Will Probably Alienate A Lot of People By Blogging About Race! In case you missed the previous posts:
Race in Fiction Week

• I’m Korean and I’m Okay
• Representing Race in Fiction

Today I want to tackle how to describe race in fiction. There are many schools of thought about this and I don’ ( Read more... )

Originally posted at Uncreated Conscience.

Last week I swore that this week I would blog about race in fiction. I absolutely intend to adhere to my resolutions, but I will need help in the coming days. Today I am going to blog about representing race in fiction, what I’d like to see, what I think (and hope) works, etc. However, after that, I’m at a ( Read more... )

Originally posted at Uncreated Conscience.


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Originally posted at Uncreated Conscience.

You know, back in the days before I started working in publishing, you really couldn’t get me to shut up online; I blogged with such frequency it was ridiculous. Now that I have actual substantive things to say, I can’t corral my undergrad expository paper-writing tendencies enough to distill my thoughts ( Read more... )

Originally posted at Uncreated Conscience.

In a completely unrelated note to what I’m about to discuss: Happy 25th birthday to my darling Teddy Bear! White-Harp wishes him a happy berfday too. *\(^.^)/*


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Originally posted at Uncreated Conscience.

When I left southern California yesterday, it was 80 degrees, sunny, clear, and beautiful. When I landed in New York, it was 20 degrees (windchill 4 degrees), dark, bitter, and miserable. It probably wasn’t the smartest decision to fly back to the East Coast late the night before I have to go to work, but I ( Read more... )

Originally posted at Uncreated Conscience.

I’ve been meaning to write this post for a long time, but I haven’t been able to get my head around it. (Not to mention I have been so swamped with work that I don’t have time to sleep, let alone blog.) I acknowledge that I am longwinded and prosaic on a good day and this post promised to be a monster. I ( Read more... )

Originally posted at Uncreated Conscience.

Diana Peterfreund wrote an awesome blog post today about Bad Boys vs. Nice Guys (part I of more to come) in fiction. In addition to being an interesting examination of the appeal of the Bad Boy, it’s also a defense of the Nice Guy.


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Originally posted at Uncreated Conscience.

I have a confession to make.

I am completely and utterly addicted to making stopmotion and hand drawn animation films. From whence does this latent desire from filmmaking arise? I have no idea.


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