Most story idea generators are awful. They offer these mash-ups of random details that don’t make any sense, and require the writer to sift out the irrelevant details and find the connections. Or worse yet, they make you fill out some kind of form to get a nonsensical outline. This story generator works differently. Each prompt […]
1. Flaunt Your Genius Do you know obscure 18th century French authors? Why of course you do, and now is the time to namedrop them. Do you know critical theory? Why of course you do, and everyone will be impressed if you use a poststructural framework to analyze the book. Nobody thinks writing a book […]
8. Whatever Easily the most forgettable of Michel Houellebecq books. Remember Houellebecq was a philosopher and a poet before he became a novelist, and this early novel was a stepping stone into his new choice of profession. It has some of the seeds of later Houellebecq — loneliness, sexual frustration, philosophical asides — but lacks the […]
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I’ve added a new page in Bookfox, one that I hope will give you a great deal of pleasure: The Most Beautiful Sentences in Literature Currently I have 100 authors on the list, but I might get sick of a few of them and boot them off in favor of new talent. I made this list […]
The 30 children’s book publishers below all have one important thing in common: they are accepting submissions directly from authors. Since many children’s publishers only accept from agents, this list should save you hundreds of hours combing through the submission guidelines of every children’s publisher on earth. And here’s a bonus! You won’t even have to […]
What is the history of punctuation signs? Would you believe me if I told you that there was a time with advanced language but without punctuation? And that the history of punctuation signs involved a lot of fighting, backstabbing, and theft? And that the way we punctuate now, with rules that we consider as irreproachable […]
There is no good reason why a graphic like this should cause controversy, but I know it will: people will complain that a novelette is the same thing as a novella, or that micro fiction is the same thing as flash fiction, or that I made up the category for Russian Novel (okay, that last one […]
If you’re looking to submit a manuscript to Catholic publishing companies, or if you’re looking for good reading to bolster your faith, this is the right page. Below are the ten best Catholic book publishers for your manuscript (with bonus ones added at the end!). Below I explain what each publisher accepts, and their submission […]
I’m a writer and a parent, and fellow parents email me all the time, asking how they can help their kid become a creative writer. It’s not like these parents are pushing their kids into creative writing. Far from it. Their kid is writing stories at nighttime, under the covers with flashlight, and filling notebooks with […]
