Chris Angelis's Blog, page 25
August 6, 2020
How to Be a Free Writer: Intellectual Freedom under Capitalism
Virtually every man-made thing you see around you right now is likely produced because of capitalism. It’s capitalism that has allowed me to write this post on my Chinese-made mini laptop, and you to read it on your (almost certainly) Chinese-made device. “Awesome!” you might think. “Capitalism is freedom, then! You’re a free writer and […]
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July 30, 2020
How to Divide Chapters Creatively
As a fiction author, perhaps you’ve never given much thought to chapter division in your novel. After all, there doesn’t seem to be anything too complex about it – dividing chapters (and parts) is just a matter of organization, right? Well, no. Learn how to divide chapters creatively, and you’ve just acquired another tool of […]
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July 24, 2020
Review of Life, by Lu Yao
Life, by Lu Yao, is a Chinese novel written – and situated – in the early 1980s. A lot has happened since in China (and globally), though much of the story revolves around timeless issues. What does it mean to love someone of a different social status? How does one balance between responsibility and personal […]
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July 18, 2020
A JavaScript Poem Shuffler
As I’ve mentioned many times on the blog, meaning is a very fluid concept in literature. This fact inspired me to see what happens when we completely distort the author’s original intention, while still maintaining some minimal cohesion. This JavaScript poem shuffler was the result. As the name perhaps implies, my JavaScript poem shuffler takes […]
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July 12, 2020
Kristen Roupenian’s “Cat Person”: an Example of Post-Autonomous Fiction
Today’s post offers an example of post-autonomous fiction, focusing on Kristen Roupenian’s “Cat Person”. The article is authored by Igor da Silva Livramento. He’s a fellow academic from UFSC, fellow author, fellow creative-writing advisor, and overall a great fellow. He’s also a composer, music theorist, and producer. Check out his papers on Academia.edu, his music on Bandcamp, […]
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July 6, 2020
How to Use Poetic Licence Properly
Poetic license (or artistic licence) refers to ignoring factual truth for creative purposes. There is a wide area covered by this definition and so, inevitably, some uses are proper whereas other improper. In other words, there are ways to use poetic licence properly (enhancing the affective power of your novel), but also improperly (muddling the […]
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June 30, 2020
Why Imagination and Creativity Are not the Same (and why It Matters)
In writing, is imagination the same as creativity? If the answer were “yes”, this post wouldn’t exist. But imagination and creativity are two very different concepts, as we’ll see in more detail, and confusing them can have far-reaching repercussions in your writing. Indeed, it’s particularly in the field of creative writing that confusing imagination and […]
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June 23, 2020
Post-Autonomous Fiction: Connecting Realities and Fictions
Today’s article on post-autonomous fiction is a guest post by Igor da Silva Livramento. He’s a fellow academic from UFSC, fellow author, fellow creative-writing advisor, and overall a great fellow. He’s also a composer, music theorist, and producer. Check out his papers on Academia.edu, his music on Bandcamp, and his personal musings on his blog […]
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June 17, 2020
Fiction Complexity Index: Calculate Your Novel’s Genre Positioning
Romance novels aren’t as complex as literary fiction. Similarly, historical fiction is more complex than, say, young-adult fantasy. I’ve been thinking, we need a Fiction Complexity Index. Moreover, we need a Fiction Complexity Index by genre; a number that can give us a rough estimate of whether our novel is “about right” in terms of […]
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June 12, 2020
The Modernity of Dracula: Dialectics of Past and Future
Note: the following article on the modernity of Dracula is a modified excerpt (pp. 66-67, 145-147) from my doctoral dissertation, “Time is Everything with Him”: The Concept of the Eternal Now in Nineteenth-Century Gothic, which is available for free from the repository of the Tampere University Press. For a list of my other academic publications, presentations, etc. feel free […]
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