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What type of reader are you?
As a break from all our exciting discussion-inducing articles and guest posts, here’s a fun little quiz to pass away your Sunday. Not to be taken overly seriously! Be sure to drop a comment and let us know what result you get. You’ve got an hour to spend reading online. What do you do? a) Chat... »
Supporting webfiction: Reviewing
In the last few months, Ergofiction has been bringing readers great sources of free fiction and encouraging everyone to find and to support the work of new authors. That support can come in a multitude of forms, all of which are appreciated by authors. Today we'd like to discuss one form of support in... »
Webfiction Wednesday 26
It’s the first of September!! How did it get here so fast!? It’s the first of September! Summer holiday’s gone! Which also means it’s the first Wednesday of the month, ergo it’s time for a Top Web Fiction monthly round-up.The Antithesis has been dominating the table for 2 months in a row, it’s almost scary!... »
Genre Fiction: Lines in the Sand
“Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.” – Francis Bacon Fast food, comfort food, whole food, and haute cuisine. Nightclub shuffle, electro-bop, modern, jazz, tap, ballet and ballroom. Shower sonata, karaoke, country, blues, pop, metal, thrash and opera. Cubism, Impressionism, Realism; cartoon, sketch, watercolour,... »
Webfiction Wednesday #25
It’s the silver jubileum edition of #webficwed! Rejoice rejoice! But wait, maybe you missed the previous 24 editions and don’t know what I’m talking about! Webfiction Wednesdays are your chance to spread the word about your favorite online stories. Join in on the fun! Reader Recommendations We invite readers to recommend their favorite webfiction by either tweeting... »
Genre Fiction: Intellectual Property
“Ultimately there is no test of literary merit except survival. Artistic theories… are quite worthless, because… they start out with arbitrary assumptions… depend on vague terms.” – George Orwell Having looked at the minimum requirements for success in three categories, Autonomic, Emotional and Landscape, we now have to move onto the slippery slope of... »
Webfiction Wednesday #24
Webfiction Wednesdays are your chance to spread the word about your favorite online stories. Join in on the fun! Reader Recommendations We invite readers to recommend their favorite webfiction by either tweeting with the hashtag #WebFicWed or adding to the list below! Short stories, completed novels, or ongoing serials — anything goes. This week’s Top Web... »
Genre Fiction: Environmental Sustainability
“The dream of reason produces monsters. Imagination deserted by reason creates impossible, useless thoughts. United with reason, imagination is the mother of all art and the source of all beauty.” – Goya. All art provides an escape, but none so purposefully as the Landscape category of genres. Whether it’s Goya’s monsters of the real, or... »
Webfiction Wednesday #23
Webfiction Wednesdays are your chance to spread the word about your favorite online stories. Join in on the fun! Reader Recommendations We invite readers to recommend their favorite webfiction by either tweeting with the hashtag #WebFicWed or adding to the list below! Short stories, completed novels, or ongoing serials — anything goes. This week’s Top Web... »
Genre Fiction: Emotional Rescue
“Such seems to be the disposition of man, that whatever makes a distinction produces rivalry.” – Samuel Johnson ‘That splendid brainbox, Dr Johnson’* could not have been more right if he hadn’t been half left. A century later, however, novelist Christian Nestell Bovee amended, ‘The successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals.’ Last week... »