Black Glass, by Karen Joy Fowler Great First Lines in Fiction First published in 1998, this book of short stories by the author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves is just as rich and complex and strange as it was seventeen years ago. If you’ve read it before, it’s worth revisiting, and if you haven’t,…Continue reading First Lines in Fiction – Black Glass
Author: Michelle Richmond
Michelle Richmond is the New York Times bestselling author of six novels and two award-winning story collections, including The Marriage Pact, Golden State, and The Year of Fog. She is the founder and publisher of Fiction Attic Press and the creator of Novel in Nine.
What to do when your static front page doesn’t load
If you’ve arrived at this post, it’s probably because your wordpress site is driving you nuts. Suddenly, your static front page only shows up when you’re logged in. When you’re not logged in, and you type in the address of your wordpress site, the static front page doesn’t load. The page that shows up to…Continue reading What to do when your static front page doesn’t load
Creative Writing Prompts for High School Students
So, you’re halfway through the summer break, you’ve made good headway into your summer reading list for high school, and you’re itching to write but you don’t know where to start. You’ve always been creative, but you know that when school starts in a few weeks, your afternoons will be filled with required reading, exhausting math homework,…Continue reading Creative Writing Prompts for High School Students
A Journey up the Yangtze River Through Three Gorges Dam
There is the sound of a releasing, water rushing in, and the ship begins to rise. It feels as if we are on an enormous elevator. Despite the early hour, the bridge above us is crowded with onlookers—the usual assortment of crumpled workers and lackluster soldiers, along with lithe elderly people who continue with their…Continue reading A Journey up the Yangtze River Through Three Gorges Dam
If I Were 22: A Few Things I’d Tell Myself If I Could Go Back in Time
If I Were 22: A Few Things I’d Tell Myself, If I Could Go Back in Time If I were 22, I’d tell myself that all of those journals I painstakingly kept, scribbling away with colored pens while Enya’s voice spilled out of the boom box, would just end up gathering dust. I’d advise myself…Continue reading If I Were 22: A Few Things I’d Tell Myself If I Could Go Back in Time