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Connor Coyne is a writer living and working in Flint, Michigan.

He's published several novels, including the award winning serial novel Urbantasm, as well as a short story collection. His work has been featured in Vox.com, Belt Magazine, and elsewhere. He lives with his wife, two daughters, and a geriatric rabbit in Flint's College Cultural Neighborhood (aka the East Village), less than a mile from the house where he grew up. ...more

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What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

Connor Coyne I've gotten to speak to several classes about this question and it typically takes up quite a bit of our time on an existential level.

Aside from crat,…moreI've gotten to speak to several classes about this question and it typically takes up quite a bit of our time on an existential level.

Aside from crat, the most important question to know is to know "why?" and "for whom?" If you are writing to contribute to a journal or magazine you admire that puts you in a very different situation from trying to build a long-term career as a writer. As for whom, your audience will have very different expectations if it comprises your friends from than if it comprises noir readers from around the world. The more precisely you can answer these questions, the better you will be able to assess how to make your writing fruitful and satisfying.

In terms of craft -- how to write what you write well -- it is just as difficult to give general advice simply because the field of the written word is so broad and deep that advice provided in one context would be entirely inappropriate elsewhere.

For example, one piece of advice beginning writers hear a lot -- "show, don't tell," -- is, in fact, useful for practice, because it orients a writer toward providing a precise account of the concrete. It is, in short, a good way to become a better master of the nuances of literary expression; to choose words and sentences and their assembly carefully. However, most of my writing is experimental, dealing with rhetorical and discursive modes outside the realm of the narration of events in a psychologically straightforward manner. Much of my writing, in fact, "tells," not "shows," and would be deficient if it expended its energy on "showing" what should be "told." The advice is good in one context and bad in another.

There is one piece of advice which ought to be apt for all writers and for all kinds of writing, and that is to immerse yourself in the medium. That is, read. The more you are able to read, the better of a writer you will be. Read fast and recklessly, read slowly and methodically, read literature far outside your realm of experience, read literature you viscerally love, and reread challenging literature over and over and over. This will make you a better writer.(less)

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Connor Coyne Many things.
- Urbantasm, the novel that I drafted in 1995-1997 and have been working on ever since is 1-2 years away from being more-or-less complete.…moreMany things.
- Urbantasm, the novel that I drafted in 1995-1997 and have been working on ever since is 1-2 years away from being more-or-less complete. That one is a magical realistic take on coming-of-age in post-industrial America.
- I'm revising my novel Beowulf to start submitting in the next couple months. That one is a post-apocalyptic reconstruction of the Old English poem.
- I continue to promote Shattering Glass, which I personally believe to be my most significant achievement to date.
- Additional small projects here and there.
- Community engagement projects via the Gothic Funk Press and other outlets.(less)

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	The Dying City (Urbantasm, #1) 4.38 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 2018 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hollywood 4.38 avg rating — 16 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shattering Glass by Connor Coyne (Goodreads Author), Reinhardt Suarez (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Sam Perkins-Harbin (Design) 4.29 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hungry Rats by Connor Coyne (Goodreads Author), Elisabeth Blair (Editor) 4.25 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2010 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Empty Room (Urbantasm, #2) 4.78 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2019 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Darkest Road (Urbantasm, #3) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 7 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Spring Storm (Urbantasm, #4) by Connor Coyne (Goodreads Author), Kelsey Ronan (Editor), Hosanna Patience (Editor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 6 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Atlas: Short Stories by Connor Coyne by Connor Coyne (Goodreads Author), Sam Perkins-Harbin (Illustrator) 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Impure Lichigan: Don't Drink the Water in Firestone (Impure Lichigan: Sword and Sorcery from the Great Lakes Realm Book 1) by Connor Coyne (Goodreads Author), Sam Perkins-Harbin (Illustrator) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Impure Lichigan: Something's Rotten in Nasty Hatchet by Connor Coyne (Goodreads Author), Sam Perkins-Harbin (Illustrator) 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Robot Dreams (Robot, #0.4)

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Outlining Your Novel: Map Your Way to Success

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“She looked just like a painting dying to speak.”
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“You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.”
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“Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the same horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men.

Now, women forget all those things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

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“Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.”
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“When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.”
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