tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2755818963095782782024-03-05T11:42:46.775-08:00Fiction Lessons from the Iowa Writers' WorkshopTK Kenyonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13756031460622964015noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-275581896309578278.post-54989008671599039912013-01-14T08:54:00.001-08:002013-01-14T08:54:24.330-08:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />TK Kenyonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13756031460622964015noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-275581896309578278.post-67574737737305315122012-09-29T08:01:00.001-07:002012-09-29T08:01:37.690-07:00Kitty<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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TK Kenyonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13756031460622964015noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-275581896309578278.post-50995145001926520572012-05-05T06:27:00.001-07:002012-05-21T07:42:13.741-07:00Kristine Kathryn Rusch: Updates on Royalty Statements Post<br />
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Kris Rusch: Updates on Royalty Statements Post: Something Rotten in New York City<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Kris Rusch's website is now up and running. The excellent blog post can be found here: </i><a href="http://kriswrites.com/2012/05/02/the-business-rusch-royalty-statement-update-2012/">http://kriswrites.com/2012/05/02/the-business-rusch-royalty-statement-update-2012/</a> </div>
</div>TK Kenyonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13756031460622964015noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-275581896309578278.post-31240594039894635452011-10-05T06:51:00.001-07:002011-10-05T06:51:29.368-07:00Where to Connect with TK Kenyon -- Google+ and Goodreads and Twitter, oh my!<div class="MsoNormal">Google+ is the hottest new site, right? <a href="https://plus.google.com/114092439743576593278/posts">https://plus.google.com/114092439743576593278/posts</a><span> </span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">If you’re into science, connect with me here: <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/tkkenyon">http://www.linkedin.com/in/tkkenyon</a> <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">Great blog for creative writing tips. <a href="http://tkkenyon.blogspot.com/">http://tkkenyon.blogspot.com/</a> <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">My Amazon profile. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/T.-K.-Kenyon/e/B001JP4HK4">http://www.amazon.com/T.-K.-Kenyon/e/B001JP4HK4</a> <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">Here I am at BlogCritics. <a href="http://blogcritics.org/writers/tk-kenyon/">http://blogcritics.org/writers/tk-kenyon/</a> <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">I even MySpace, occasionally. <a href="http://www.myspace.com/tkkenyon">http://www.myspace.com/tkkenyon</a> <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">Tweet with me! I tweet links to free e-fiction on the web and happy thoughts! <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/TKKenyon">https://twitter.com/#!/TKKenyon</a> <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">A great place to see what I’m up to, writing-wise. <a href="http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/malachitepublishing">http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/malachitepublishing</a> <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">Shelfari is another great book site: <a href="http://www.shelfari.com/tkkenyon">http://www.shelfari.com/tkkenyon</a> <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">All my reviews on Amazon:<span> </span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/pdp/profile/A2QSSNUGVG5II8?ie=UTF8&%2AVersion%2A=1&%2Aentries%2A=0">https://www.amazon.com/gp/pdp/profile/A2QSSNUGVG5II8?ie=UTF8&%2AVersion%2A=1&%2Aentries%2A=0</a><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">This is a great science fiction anthology, and I gave it 5 stars because it deserved it. <a href="http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2011/08/guest-review-tk-kenyon-on-the-best-science-fiction-and-fantasy-of-the-year-volume-five-edited-by-jonathan-strahan/">http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2011/08/guest-review-tk-kenyon-on-the-best-science-fiction-and-fantasy-of-the-year-volume-five-edited-by-jonathan-strahan/</a><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">Connect with me on Goodreads: A great site for readers: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/202809.T_K_Kenyon">http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/202809.T_K_Kenyon</a> <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">All my blogs: Gluten-Free, creative writing, other stuff. <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/13756031460622964015">http://www.blogger.com/profile/13756031460622964015</a> <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">Fuel for Diesel Ebooks: <a href="http://search.diesel-ebooks.com/author/Kenyon,%20TK/results/1.html">http://search.diesel-ebooks.com/author/Kenyon,%20TK/results/1.html</a> <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">Like to blow things up? 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</div>TK Kenyonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13756031460622964015noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-275581896309578278.post-29028884377733901302011-09-27T11:18:00.001-07:002011-09-27T11:18:43.032-07:00New writer who posts TK Kenyon's Links! Awesome!<a href="http://aithne-jarretta.blogspot.com/p/t-k-kenyons-reader-writer-links.html">http://aithne-jarretta.blogspot.com/p/t-k-kenyons-reader-writer-links.html </a><br />
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TK KenyonTK Kenyonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13756031460622964015noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-275581896309578278.post-36925616525195590992011-09-27T08:29:00.001-07:002011-09-27T08:29:49.112-07:00Where to Connect with TK Kenyon -- Google+ and Goodreads and Twitter, oh my!<div class="MsoNormal">Google+ is the hottest new site, right? <a href="https://plus.google.com/114092439743576593278/posts">https://plus.google.com/114092439743576593278/posts</a><span> </span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">If you’re into science, connect with me here: <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/tkkenyon">http://www.linkedin.com/in/tkkenyon</a> <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">Great blog for creative writing tips. <a href="http://tkkenyon.blogspot.com/">http://tkkenyon.blogspot.com/</a> <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">My Amazon profile. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/T.-K.-Kenyon/e/B001JP4HK4">http://www.amazon.com/T.-K.-Kenyon/e/B001JP4HK4</a> <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">Here I am at BlogCritics. <a href="http://blogcritics.org/writers/tk-kenyon/">http://blogcritics.org/writers/tk-kenyon/</a> <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">I even MySpace, occasionally. <a href="http://www.myspace.com/tkkenyon">http://www.myspace.com/tkkenyon</a> <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">Tweet with me! I tweet links to free e-fiction on the web and happy thoughts! <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/TKKenyon">https://twitter.com/#!/TKKenyon</a> <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">A great place to see what I’m up to, writing-wise. <a href="http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/malachitepublishing">http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/malachitepublishing</a> <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">Shelfari is another great book site: <a href="http://www.shelfari.com/tkkenyon">http://www.shelfari.com/tkkenyon</a> <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">All my reviews on Amazon: <span> </span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/pdp/profile/A2QSSNUGVG5II8?ie=UTF8&%2AVersion%2A=1&%2Aentries%2A=0">https://www.amazon.com/gp/pdp/profile/A2QSSNUGVG5II8?ie=UTF8&%2AVersion%2A=1&%2Aentries%2A=0</a><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">This is a great science fiction anthology, and I gave it 5 stars because it deserved it. <a href="http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2011/08/guest-review-tk-kenyon-on-the-best-science-fiction-and-fantasy-of-the-year-volume-five-edited-by-jonathan-strahan/">http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2011/08/guest-review-tk-kenyon-on-the-best-science-fiction-and-fantasy-of-the-year-volume-five-edited-by-jonathan-strahan/</a><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">Connect with me on Goodreads: A great site for readers: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/202809.T_K_Kenyon">http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/202809.T_K_Kenyon</a> <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">All my blogs: Gluten-Free, creative writing, other stuff. <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/13756031460622964015">http://www.blogger.com/profile/13756031460622964015</a> <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">Fuel for Diesel Ebooks: <a href="http://search.diesel-ebooks.com/author/Kenyon,%20TK/results/1.html">http://search.diesel-ebooks.com/author/Kenyon,%20TK/results/1.html</a> <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">Like to blow things up? Here’s a guy who did it for a living. Now that’s job satisfaction! <a href="http://www.chemheritage.org/discover/magazine/articles/26-4-science-and-celebrity.aspx">http://www.chemheritage.org/discover/magazine/articles/26-4-science-and-celebrity.aspx</a> <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">Do you #kindleboards #KB? I do! <a href="http://www.kindleboards.com/index.php?topic=71383.0">http://www.kindleboards.com/index.php?topic=71383.0</a> <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">Having trouble with your overprotective parents? Try being Indian, in the theater, and lesbian. <a href="http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/66664">http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/66664</a> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Nag-Hindi-Cobra-ebook/dp/B0055WXKDW">http://www.amazon.com/Nag-Hindi-Cobra-ebook/dp/B0055WXKDW</a><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">Think you can beat Las Vegas? Frank thought so. <a href="http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/68208">http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/68208</a> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Law-Large-Numbers-ebook/dp/B0057AFHJC">http://www.amazon.com/Law-Large-Numbers-ebook/dp/B0057AFHJC</a> <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">In 1942, Nazi subs hunted ships off the US East Coast. Read more: <a href="http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/79924">http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/79924</a> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Hooligan-Navy-Short-Story-ebook/dp/B005GL8V1S">http://www.amazon.com/Hooligan-Navy-Short-Story-ebook/dp/B005GL8V1S</a> <o:p></o:p></div>TK Kenyonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13756031460622964015noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-275581896309578278.post-13765656387945595402008-08-22T12:17:00.001-07:002008-08-22T12:17:19.557-07:00Contest: Review the Book Reviewers<a href="http://tkkenyon.blogspot.com/2008/08/book-review-review-contest.html">http://tkkenyon.blogspot.com/2008/08/book-review-review-contest.html</a><br /><br />Over at my author blog, I'm holding a contest for the best mock review that mocks book reviews. Enter by leaving your own mock review in the comments.<br /><br />TKTK Kenyonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13756031460622964015noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-275581896309578278.post-75651792496336735622008-05-31T07:49:00.000-07:002008-05-31T07:50:55.800-07:00Kunati Book Publishers Wins Prestigious AwardKunati, the book publisher that published <a href="http://www.tkkenyon.com/">my two novels</a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1601640021">RABID </a>and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1601640226">CALLOUS</a>, has won one of the most prestigious awards for indie publishers. <br /><br /><a href="http://www.kunati.com/">Kunati Book Publishers </a>was honored with the <a href="http://www.kunati.com/">INDEPENDENT PUBLISHER OF THE YEAR AWARD </a>at BookExpo America in Los Angeles, California on May 30, 2008, by <a href="http://www.forewordmagazine.com/">FOREWORD MAGAZINE, </a>one of the five dominant trade magazines in the book publishing field. Joshua Corin, a Kunati author, accepted at BEA on Kunati's behalf. <br /><br />The new honor was created to celebrate ForeWord's tenth anniversary and to recognize Kunati's innovation and fearlessness. <br /><br />Kunati, a year-old publisher, produces book trailers for every new release, maintains a blog, and encourages its authors to blog and actively participate in marketing their books. The publisher currently has several movie deals in the works, and its roster of authors includes Pulitzer Prize winner John E. Mack. <br /><br />Read all of Kunati's "fearless" books at <a href="http://www.kunati.com/kunati-bookshelf-main/">http://www.kunati.com/kunati-bookshelf-main/</a> .TK Kenyonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13756031460622964015noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-275581896309578278.post-59354640321410129312008-04-28T20:19:00.001-07:002008-04-28T20:19:49.098-07:00Amazon Jumped the Gun!Amazon jumped the gun and is offering my new novel, CALLOUS, for sale ahead of its May publication date ( http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1601640226 ) . When RABID was released last year, Amazon sold out and even sucked dry its wholesaler, so they had to backorder the book from the distributer and it took a couple weeks to get the fresh meat. <br /><br />If you want to read CALLOUS any time soon, muscle your way to the head of the line and snatch a copy from some milquetoast's virtual shopping cart now! <br /><br />TK Kenyon<br />http://www.tkkenyon.comTK Kenyonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13756031460622964015noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-275581896309578278.post-90504380647636637432008-04-24T20:26:00.001-07:002008-04-24T20:27:05.918-07:00Book Trailer for TK Kenyon's Novel *Callous*Here's a lesson for you: My publisher's marketing guys came up with this.<br /><br /><object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/YjoBf3_Hh3E&hl=en"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/YjoBf3_Hh3E&hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object>TK Kenyonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13756031460622964015noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-275581896309578278.post-75111376627706477882008-03-19T09:36:00.000-07:002008-03-19T09:37:23.105-07:00All TK Kenyon's Blogs<a href="http://science4non-majors.blogspot.com/">http://science4non-majors.blogspot.com/</a> <br /><a href="http://fictionlessons.blogspot.com/">http://fictionlessons.blogspot.com/</a> <br /><a href="http://tkkenyon.blogspot.com/">http://tkkenyon.blogspot.com/</a> <br /><a href="http://celiac-maniac.blogspot.com/">http://celiac-maniac.blogspot.com/</a> <br /><a href="http://rabidfictionreviews.blogspot.com/">http://rabidfictionreviews.blogspot.com/</a> <br /><a href="http://rabidatheists.blogspot.com/">http://rabidatheists.blogspot.com/</a><br /><a href="http://www.tkkenyon.com/">http://www.tkkenyon.com</a>TK Kenyonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13756031460622964015noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-275581896309578278.post-58773397331089137252008-03-17T19:44:00.000-07:002008-03-17T19:48:40.346-07:00Interior Monologue: Just Think No!The whole concept of internal monologue as a device is problematic for several reasons:<br /><br />A) No one thinks in sentences. Putting your feelings / thoughts into language is the last step after they boil up from your personality / soul / brain.<br /><br />B) It slows down the action because neither scene nor action nor interaction between characters are progressing while the IM character stops and thinks.<br /><br />C) It makes the reader ask: well, if we can read his/her mind directly, why don't you just tell us and get it over with? Why didn't you just write a 1 paragraph essay instead of a short story / book?<br /><br />D) <a href="http://www.tkkenyon.com/fiction-dont-show-dramatize.html" target="_blank">It's telling, not dramatizing.</a> This means that you have told us what the character is thinking rather than the character putting his thoughts into action (a la Aristotle, who said that all character is action, meaning that a change or thought within a character must be expressed in action or else it didn't really happen. If a character's inner life fell in the middle of the woods and no one was around to hear it, did it make a sound? Forrester and Smiley disagree with the concept that character must express itself in action and say that, indeed, thoughts and feelings not outwardly expressed are the measure of a round character.)<br /><br />Rather than stopping the forward action of your story by having your characters do something like, I considered this, and I don't know what to do, You can use third person omniscient narrator to show us what she is thinking, for example, the excellent IM in Mansfield Park by Jane Austen, where the lazy Lady Bertram, who asks her husband whether she herself is hungry, she "did not think deeply, but, guided by Sir Thomas, she thought justly on all important points; and she saw, therefore, in all its enormity, what had happened, and neither endeavored herself, nor required Fanny to advise her, to think little of guilt and infamy."<br /><br /><a href="http://www.tkkenyon.com/">TK Kenyon </a><br /><a href="http://tkkenyon.blogspot.com/">TK's Author Blog</a><br />Author of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1601640021">RABID: A Novel </a>and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1601640226">CALLOUS: A Novel</a><br /><a href="http://rabidfictionreviews.blogspot.com/">Rabid Reviews Blog</a>TK Kenyonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13756031460622964015noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-275581896309578278.post-23054914285070328752008-03-16T14:56:00.000-07:002008-03-16T14:58:42.662-07:00New Yorker's "Raj, Bohemian" by Hari KunzruHari Kunzru has written an intellectual but ultimately dry short story for <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/">The New Yorker</a> (March 10, 2008,) "Raj, Bohemian." <br /><br />His main character is a first-person, nameless New York trend setter, a la Patrick Bateman, but without the interesting killing sprees of American Psycho. The character discovers that many of the people in his consumer-driven, shallow, trendy lifestyle are actually something like Buzz Agents who "monetize their social networks" because they are "early adopters," and spout buzz lines to their friends whenever appropriate. <br /><br />Protag feels betrayed because he thought he was hip. He takes a knife to go kill Raj, the first person who he figured out was a buzzer in his social circle, but when he gets there, ennui overcomes him, and he instead succumbs to habitual trendiness. <br /><br />This is ultimately unsatisfying because Kunzru ends his story with The Shrug. The story falls into numb and mindless violence, or violent and mindless numbness, or <em>whatever</em>. <br /><br />While I'm no fan of epiphanic fiction, where a story's climax can be summarized as "And then I realized...," or "And everything was blue feathers," a story must end; it cannot merely peter out.<br /><br />"Raj, Bohemian" is interesting, but essentially numbing. It does not shake you with emotion, which is what the best stories do. <br /><br /><a href="http://www.tkkenyon.com/">TK Kenyon</a><br />Author of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1601640021">RABID: A Novel </a>and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1601640226">CALLOUS: A Novel</a>TK Kenyonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13756031460622964015noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-275581896309578278.post-22767547920748117342008-01-30T18:44:00.000-08:002008-01-30T18:45:12.705-08:00TK Kenyon: Website UpdateSome new stuff at the website:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.tkkenyon.com/">TK Kenyon </a>TK Kenyonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13756031460622964015noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-275581896309578278.post-87930091173952934992008-01-30T18:36:00.000-08:002008-01-30T18:38:03.849-08:00"As You Know, Bob." — When Exposition Masquerades as DialogueIf your dialogue sounds stilted, you may have written exposition and tried to pass it off as dialogue. Dialogue's one and only purpose is to elucidate tension between characters. <br /><br />It is not, ever, to convey information. <br /><br />A bad example of what I mean:<br /><br />Exposition masquerading as dialogue: "As you know, Bob, we've been stuck on this desert island for twenty years, eating only the coconuts that grow on the one tree and fish which we catch with our hands. We have several vitamin deficiencies, and you've been picking your nose this whole time. Stop it, or I'm going to kill you!"<br /><br />Or:<br /><br />Dramatized exposition, and one line of dialogue: Ted pounded the coconut open with a rock. It wasn't quite ripe yet, but he was so tired of fish, and his fingernails stung in the salt water where they cracked and peeled.<br /> Bob sat on the beach a few yards away. He was picking his nose again. Again.<br /> "Stop it!" Ted screamed and picked up the rock he had used to smash the green coconut into meaty fragments.TK Kenyonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13756031460622964015noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-275581896309578278.post-89772761269933761282007-12-12T15:10:00.001-08:002007-12-12T15:12:31.792-08:00TK Kenyon: Sexism, Stridency, and Sounding OffUnder the category of “No Good Deed Goes Unpunished,” I was attacked in a blog for defending Doris Lessing’s recent Nobel Prize for Literature against people who denigrated her work.<br /><br />I don’t want to publicize this blog, but you can search for “T.K. Kenyon + sexism” on Google and find it.<br /><br />The person who wrote the blog emailed me ... <em>twice</em> ... through an email widgit to ensure that I knew about this particular Google search, linking my name to “sexism.” That’s a singularly cruel thing to do.<br /><br />Think about how you would feel if a Google search of your name + “racism” turned up a blog accusing you of that, plus the author made sure you knew what she was calling you behind your back.<br /><br />I was attacked as a “sexist,” because I noted that Doris Lessing wrote seminal feminist works, and her critics, mostly men, thought that she, a feminist writer, didn’t deserve the Nobel Prize.<br /><br />That’s right, I stood up for a person being slammed by sexists, and that makes me a sexist. The woman writing the blog obviously thinks that sexism no longer exists, but it does.<br /><br />Anecdotes about sexism abound. I have several. One creative writing professor that I studied with critiqued women’s stories with female characters thusly: if the character was weak, they were “weepy;” if the character was strong and yelled or did anything proactive, they were “strident.”<br /><br />Men in this class did not cross-write female characters, it must be noted.<br /><br />“Strident” is a term often used to defame Doris Lessing’s protagonists. The term is also used to bash women who are perceived as too strong. In Carolyn G. Heilbrun’s <em>Writing A Woman’s Life,</em> she said that when women tell the truth, we are called strident.<br /><br />I am more trained as a scientist than as a writer, at least in number of years in graduate school, so I tend to use statistics more than anecdotes to support opinions.<br /><br />Male and female authors publish books in roughly equal numbers. However:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.sistersincrime.org/monitor/2006.html">Percentage of book reviews </a>for male authors vs. female authors for 2006 in major review publications: 56%:44%<br /><br /><a href="http://www.sistersincrime.org/monitor/2007.html">Percentage of book reviews </a>for male authors vs. female authors for Jan-June 2007 in major review publications: 63%:37%<br /><br /><a href="http://www.booksquare.com/see-its-because-women-cant-review-military-history/">Percentage of book reviews </a>for male authors vs. female authors for at the New York Times Review of Books (very influential): 72%:28%<br /><br /><a href="http://www.booksquare.com/see-its-because-women-cant-review-military-history/">Ratio of male book reviewers </a>to female reviewers at the New York Times Review of Books: 2:1<br /><br /><a href="http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2006/09/21/womentk/index.html">Percentage of articles </a>written by men to those written by women in the five “thought leader” magazines: 3:1<br /><br />Worse yet, as I read most of those magazines, I can tell you with a quick glace at my stock, that the few women writers write about women, home life, babies, diapers, poems, and very light culture. The heavy stuff like economics is reserved for the boys.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2006/09/21/womentk/index.html">Percentage of male book buyers </a>to female: 45%:55%<br /><br /><a href="http://msmagazine.com/summer2005/opinion.asp">Women constitute only </a>17 percent of opinion writers at The New York Times, 10 percent at The Washington Post, 28 percent at U.S. News & World Report, 23 percent at Newsweek and 13 percent at Time. Overall, only 24 percent of nationally syndicated columnists are women.<br /><br />No matter what the flailing Uncle Tom-asina thinks about sexism, it’s alive and well in the publishing and book critiquing businesses. Doris Lessing got bashed. I got bashed for defending her from the sexists who denigrated her work because it was too “strident.”<br /><br />I’m not surprised.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.tkkenyon.com/">TK Kenyon </a><br />Author of <a href="http://www.tkkenyon.com/">RABID: A Novel </a>and <a href="http://www.tkkenyon.com/">CALLOUS: A Novel </a>TK Kenyonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13756031460622964015noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-275581896309578278.post-1007638004217330592007-12-10T15:38:00.000-08:002007-12-10T15:39:55.763-08:00Don't Show -- Dramatize! (Even better than "Show, Don't Tell.")I'm sure that, at some point, you're heard the adage <em>Show, Don't Tell. </em> There's even a rather good writing book by that title. Here's a new aphorism: Dramatize, Don't Just Show. Important information should be woven into the action and the results of it shown in the scene. It's a tough concept. Try to think about not telling your audience / reader the info, but just showing the effects of the event and weaving it in insidiously so that the reader just takes it for granted. Bad examples of a good idea:<br /><br />Telling: Bobbie had an illegitimate child, Ted.<br /><br />Showing: Bobbie picked up the photo of her and Ted, her son. He was blonde, blue-eyed, and looked like his father, Jim.<br /> Bobbie's husband, Lars, walked into the kitchen.<br /><br />Some Dramatizing and Some Summary: Ted ran through the kitchen, waving his hands, screaming "Baaaa!" and other wordless syllables. He was wild, like his father Jim. That wildness had swept Bobbie along with him for three months in Mexico, camping on the beach, hiding from the Federales, but then Jim left, and she went home to her parents and her husband.<br /> (Never mind that it might be a run-on sentence.)<br /><br />This last example still has some exposition in it. Even better would be a scene between Lars and Bobbie, with Tim doing something obnoxious and wild in the background, and the suggestion that Tim isn't Lars's son within the context of the immediate scene. Don't let the dialogue turn into exposition, but that's a whole other topic.<br /><br />More Dramatizing: Ted ran through the kitchen, waving his hands, screaming "Baaaa!" Bobbie cringed, but the cringing was more a habit than a real reaction. Ted sprinted through the kitchen again, naked, "Ya-la-la-la-la-la!" and ran outside into the hot rain. Lars glanced at the café-au-lait child, shook his head, and went back to eating his high-fiber cereal. Ted streaked through again, leaving muddy footprints on the clean floor. Bobbie caught him around his seal-slippery little waist and heaved him into the kitchen sink. She rinsed the mud off him with the sink sprayer, and thinned Arkansas gumbo clay ran down the drain, probably to clog the septic tank and cost them a couple hundred dollars to have it pumped.<br /> Lars waited, holding his bowl, for her to finish hosing Ted off. Lars was good at waiting.<br /> Bobbie set Ted, naked and slippery but clean, on the floor and he pattered away, leaving clear, wet footprints on the tile. Lars handed her the bowl. The wild, yellow Mexican sunset pottery glinted. She hadn't bought the orange Fiestaware. The principal component of orange glaze was uranium ore, radioactive enough to hyperstimulate a Geiger counter.<br /> "Thanks," she said and rinsed away the trace of skim milk. Lars sensibly wasted not and wanted not.<br /> He was so, so sensible, and so terribly good at waiting. Bobbie cringed.<br /><br />The dramatized information links the info to Bobbie's feelings, motivations, and history. Thus, it is dramatized. Think in terms of scene, not summary. If the sentence isn't in the real time of the scene, carefully consider cutting it.<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.tkkenyon.com/">TK Kenyon<br /></a>Author of Rabid, coming in 2007 from Kunati Books<br />Reprinted from the author's website: www.tkkenyon.comTK Kenyonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13756031460622964015noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-275581896309578278.post-82393634402200859212007-12-10T14:26:00.000-08:002007-12-10T15:37:22.173-08:00Why Read Fiction?Lately, several times, people have said to me with some pride that they don't read fiction, because it isn't real. They read only non-fiction.<br /><br />I am taken aback by this every time I hear it, yet I hear it again and again, many times from intelligent people who do read. Considering that non-fiction books outsell fiction books as categories by (last time I heard) 3:1, it is not surprising that this opinion is out there.<br /><br />How do you answer these people, who say with pride that they do not read fiction? And they do not read fiction because it isn't real?<br /><br />Without getting snarky that these are the people I would expect to watch reality TV shows, I stop and consider the deeper issue at hand: if it isn't real, what is the purpose of art?<br /><br />The purpose of non-fiction is to inform. The purpose of technical writing is to describe a process, protocol, or idea. But what, what is the purpose of art as a whole?<br /><br />It's not just pretty. Art that merely delights the senses with no deeper thought is pornography. It can't be to describe good versus evil. That is the realm of religion and morality tales.<br /><br />The purpose of art is to explore what it means to be human, one human in particular and human in general.<br /><br />But what then is the outcome of doing this? We already know what it is to be human. Been one all my life. Why should we read fiction and engage art?<br /><br />It seems indicative to me that art and violence seem to be inversely proportional in cultures. While some (Cocaine Nights by JC Ballard) would deny this and even say that the insecurity of violence foments creativity, it seems to me that there are several examples of cultures where my premise holds.<br /><br />1) The Chiracua Apaches of Southwestern USA (note: I'm a 1/4, so I can say this) had very little art. They retold stories through dance (though these were usually the recounting of exploits, not creative endeavors) and had a few decorative arts (beading and such). They were also one of the most violent peoples in history. Essentially, it was a culture of serial killers. Brutal, sadistic killing was encouraged and celebrated. They ate a lot of raw horse meat, many times their own horses. I'm researching serial killers right now for my next novel, and Ted Bundy, et al, were amateurs compared to Apaches. Art humanizes others to us. The Apaches' lack of art allowed them to not recognize the humanity of other people and so kill them, usually horribly.<br /><br />2) Indians from India, on the other hand, fought very few wars among themselves and had peace for generations upon generations, even though many different ethnicities, languages, and religions crowd the subcontinent. They produced some of the oldest creative works known to man, decorated everything, and made art part of their religion. Their temples are some of the most gorgeous in the world. Even their clothes, like saris, are silk shot with gold thread. Every morning, many women make sand paintings as a religious devotion that is swept away every night. (Note: Navajos make sand paintings as part of their religion, not Apaches.) Jewelry, household items, and clothes are elaborately decorated. They invented condiments to further decorate food. Some of their spices add little taste to the already highly seasoned food but add color. Whole segments of society are vegetarian and practice ahimsa, non-violence to every living thing. These are the folks who threw the British out by passive resistance. They defeated the world's greatest empire by not fighting.<br /><br />Some people might say that the disparity in the wealth of a culture makes a difference. I disagree. Rural India and the slums of Calcutta are every bit as desperate as the reservations are now and the desert was 150 years ago.<br /><br />I think art humanizes us. That's its purpose: to make us fully human and able to see the humanity in others, so that we cannot be murderers.<br /><br />TK Kenyon, author of <a href="http://www.tkkenyon.com/">Rabid: A Novel</a>, coming in 2007 from Kunati Books<br />tags: <a href="http://www.gather.com/novels">novels</a>, <a href="http://www.gather.com/fiction">fiction</a>, <a href="http://www.gather.com/books">books</a>, <a href="http://www.gather.com/arts">arts</a>, <a href="http://www.gather.com/politics">politics</a>, <a href="http://www.gather.com/art">art</a>, <a href="http://www.gather.com/spirituality">spirituality</a>, <a href="http://www.gather.com/non-fiction">non-fiction</a><br />NiftyTK Kenyonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13756031460622964015noreply@blogger.com0