Tag Archives: Writing

What Editors Do, A Rebuttal

Posted on May 23, 2015 by Gene Stewart

It strikes me that editors asking for changes is simply another way of stripping our voices from the work. Whatcha think? Yes, a good editor can focus a work but I don’t see that happening more than once in every … Continue reading →

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Finding Your Own Voice In Writing

Posted on April 1, 2015 by Gene Stewart

Developing writers with ambition all want to find their own voices, craft their own styles, and become known as the only source for their particular writing. Then they grow up and discover that editors hate that and want mostly pastiche … Continue reading →

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“Show, Don’t Tell” – a RAT STEW Column

Posted on November 6, 2014 by Gene Stewart

Rat Stew A Column for The Reluctant Famulus by Gene Stewart “Show, don’t tell.” We hear this echoed in English composition classes. We hear it parroted in writing workshops. We hear it cited in reviews and quoted in interviews. We … Continue reading →

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Heart Eater: How I Got Here

Posted on July 19, 2014 by Gene Stewart

I’m a successful writer. It’s the publishers failing me. That sounds like an ironic joke but consider: I’ve been a writer for 48 years, submitting (at first sporadically, I admit), for 40 years, and publishing for 24 years. My first … Continue reading →

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Writerly Whining

Posted on July 17, 2014 by Gene Stewart

I’ve just finished fixing galleys of an anthology story made juvenile and riddled with errors by the editors, who evidently don’t know to from too from two, among other horrors such as inserted exclamation marks, italicized words that are also … Continue reading →

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A Blurt About TV Writing

Posted on July 16, 2014 by Gene Stewart

Remember when the Fonz jumped the shark?  That phrase has come to mean when a series, out of ideas, goes too far into the ridiculous, going against established character and general series logic, solely for something to to so the … Continue reading →

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FB LitChat w/ JC & SL

Posted on May 28, 2014 by Gene Stewart

“Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places.”–H.P. Lovecraft. It’s not just horror I search for. It’s that ‘something else’ that might inspire awe, too. A shifting in the writing focus? Hmmmm… We’ll see. Anyway, good Wednesday morning, friends. On the … Continue reading →

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Panning Gold From Life

Posted on February 6, 2014 by Gene Stewart

As a reader, I have known that good writing is really all that matters. Even when I was a kid. As a writer, I know that market category forces us into a Procrustean deal with the devil. Warping our work … Continue reading →

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Ageism and Obstacles

Posted on December 13, 2013 by Gene Stewart

I was speaking of ageism on a John Shirley thread and told this story: When I was 16 I wrote a story called “Not Buzzard” and sent it, my very first submission ever, to ESQUIRE, being naive. A week or … Continue reading →

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Rebecca Snow Interviews Gene Stewart

Posted on November 18, 2013 by Gene Stewart

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