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Writing Academically about Manga and Fanfiction

10/30/2017

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Fanfiction is new to me.  I didn't read any until I was an adult who already had a PhD, and I was pleasantly surprised by the quality of writing and the atmosphere communal support I saw there.  People who write fanfiction have no fear, and so underneath all the fluff I found a culture of experimentation I haven't seen in traditionally published fiction.  I was inspired, and I felt like some trends in fanfiction were not being addressed by academic writing.  There was little about really dark fanfiction and even less about manga fics.

So I wrote an article.  And it got published.  You can read my article about Fullmetal Alchemist fanfiction published by Transformative Works and Cultures here.

Be warned, I'm talking about torture in manga and fanfiction, so it's pretty violent.
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How I Can Tell You Wrote Your Novel in November: Common NaNoWriMo Mistakes

10/17/2017

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National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) is upon us again, dear writers.  It’s a fantastic event that has permanently welded together my love of fall (warm coffee, muffins, and all things squash) to my love of intense creative output.  NaNoWriMo challenges writers to write The challenge is to write 50,000 words in 30 days.  But even if you don’t have novel bursting forth from your… chest or whatnot—you can still participate in spirit.  Last year I wrote an academic article in November instead of something fictional, but it was still intense and I used NaNoWriMo’s encouragement to get me through.

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Owning Your Writing Process

10/4/2017

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Some things about the early stages of writing are universal: the exhilaration of epiphany, the struggle to wrangle that amorphous epiphany into actual words, and rampant hair-pulling when the words won’t play fair.

But then again every writer’s process is different-- it’s this weird scaffold of habits and strategies lashed together that capitalizes on your strengths and fights against your weaknesses as you summit the WIP mountain.  So this week I’m revealing my things that make my neurotic process uniquely mine and explaining why my habits are what they are.  The hope is you then think about your process deeply and see what’s working for you, why, and what needs to be changed to get you to the summit.

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