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Review Tales Magazine
Winter Edition 5
We ring in the New Year with hope and a promise. We hope the holiday season has given you enjoyment and that 2023 is filled with much-needed love and success. We promise to bring an even more diverse and collectively improved magazine for our book lovers and authors.
With all the success that followed last year and the launch of Review Tales Magazine, I was not expecting such a wonderful reception. I always knew the writing community needed such a platform, and as I would converse with so many authors, I understood the value of its creation. However, what transpired was an overwhelming amount of support, love, and, ultimately, an inspirational outcome.
While I sit here and write for the first edition of this year’s magazine, I want to let you all know that we plan to keep altering, innovating, and challenging magazine standards. We resolve to make resolutions as we go and purely write for you.
The winter 2023 issue is filled with the evolution of an author, the confessions of a sci-fi writer, and how an author has found freedom and truth through writing. We invite late bloomers to this wonderful world of inventiveness and all the inspired authors who write and use visual imagination in their books.
A lot can happen in a year, and between the good, the bad, and the ugly, this may seem like an understatement to most. As glasses are raised, and fireworks explode into the sky, it’s important to recognize the special symbolism of the New Year.
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Funny Things by Jennifer deBie
Being a novelist is a funny thing.
It’s a funny thing for a whole host of reasons, but the funniness of it struck me particularly hard this past weekend, when I realized at 1:32AM Saturday morning that I was stone-cold sober, and earnestly researching the etymology of the term ‘serial killer’ for a throwaway detail in the novel I’m currently writing.
Read MoreInspiration by Donald Furrow-Scott
After four years of writing four novels and fully outlining four more, a calm is overcoming my muse this summer. It is not a fit of writer’s block, in fact, quite the opposite. Nor is it some furor poeticus that will result in yet another stress-squozen pandemic novel.
Read MoreThoughts on writing a collection of interlinked stories by Elizabeth Merry
Carey Harrison, novelist and playwright, said once, that if you get into the habit of writing novels, short stories, plays, or television scripts, then every idea you get turns itself into the appropriate length. And to avoid that, you should aim for different lengths, different structures. Although I have written two novels for children and a collection of poetry, that was a long time ago, and for many years now every idea turns itself into a short story. I don’t mind though; it seems to suit me best, and works best for me too.
Read MoreFollowing Hollywood on location by Richard Starks
Write what you know. That’s one of the rules for creating good fiction, so as much as possible you should draw on your own first-hand experiences. Not easy to do when you’re writing historical fiction (unless you’re two hundred years old), in which case you need to up your game when it comes to research.
Read MoreReality is Elusively Absurd by Brian Petkash
Reality is elusively absurd. To render in art the every day, the rhythm, and meter of life, can be a fool’s errand. One must first set out to define what is real, it seems, and then develop a method of sending one’s fictional reality to invade another’s actual reality. This is no easy thing.
Read MoreLiterary Devices Make Writers Giggle by John Espie
Back when I was taking Lit classes, I kept learning about allegory and extended metaphors and allusions and lots of other fancy words, and the whole time I couldn’t help but think, Are these professors taking this stuff way more seriously than the actual writers did?
Read MoreWriting the Gift Story by Alex Bernstein
No one likes staring at a blank page. Fortunately, many writers cultivate all sorts of prompts and tools to conquer that authorial vacuum as much as possible – whether it be leaving the previous day’s writing off on a cliffhanger – or maintaining an endless List of Ideas forever begging to be written.
Read MoreInterview With Kathy Davis
- What’s your favorite thing you have written?
Probably the poem that closes Passiflora, “Girls, She Falcons, Be Thin: Let Us Work Ourselves Asleep Against You,” because the hawk’s rise at the end feels so hopeful. Also, the title comes from a book of poetry someone gave me as a gift when I was in college but that I didn’t read until more than 20 years later. You never know what’s waiting on your bookshelf to be pulled down and read at just the moment when it will mean the most to you.
Read MoreWriting Even When You Don’t Think You Can By Kristin Durfee
Writing a novel can sometimes it can feel like being in one of those old cartoons where the character makes this herculean effort to get to the top of a mountain…only to see thousands of other mountains along the horizon.
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