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Fiction

Time and relative dimensions in fiction

December 14, 2019December 16, 2019 christammillerFiction, Musings
Woman juggling clock faces

No matter how much I might like to brand myself as “consistently inconsistent,” I’d like to find a better way. I’m not a fan of either separate accounts or one social network per interest. Neither feels quite right to me; it’s as if you’d be getting pieces, but not an integrated whole, not the full representation of me as a writer.

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When “too much” might actually be enough: October’s fiction update

October 14, 2019October 14, 2019 christammillerFeatured, Fiction
cables attached to telephone pole

Writing this blog this week, I had the thought that I’m really doing an awful lot. Two very different kinds of fiction, plus journalism, plus freelance clients, plus nonprofit work, plus family and home is… more than I suspect a lot of people do.

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More incremental progress — and new crowdfunding opportunities! — in September’s fiction update

September 15, 2019September 15, 2019 christammillerFeatured, Fiction

Like most people, we hardly have $5,000 lying around. Obviously we’re financing the system, but therein lies the rub: it’s another monthly payment when our family is already strapped. So naturally, I did what any writer does when faced with such circumstances: I started a new crowdfunding account.

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Slow but forward motion: August’s fiction update

August 21, 2019August 21, 2019 christammillerFeatured, Fiction
turtle climbing upwards

August has been a busy month. Although the writing itself has proceeded slowly owing to some business travel and related preparatory and decompression time, it’s in motion — and exciting peripheral developments helped to push it along. Read on to […]

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Desperate, damned, and disturbing: July’s fiction update

July 14, 2019July 14, 2019 christammillerFeatured, Fiction
Books on shelves reaching up towards the sky

Last month’s freelance update served as a little bit of a reintroduction to who I am and what I do. In the future, I’ll talk about the work I’m doing for various clients, as well as reading I’m doing and […]

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More processing on the concept of empathy

April 22, 2019April 22, 2019 christammillerFiction, Musings

Serendipity surprises me sometimes in the way it brings different elements together, either a set of new things that become a pattern, or new facets of something I’m already thinking about. Then again, maybe like Fox Mulder, I just want […]

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The story behind the story: “God’s Country”

November 12, 2018November 12, 2018 christammillerFeatured, Fiction, Short Stories

Many (though not all) of my stories start with a place I visit or see in pictures, which strikes me a particular way. In “God’s Country,” out in Nosetouch Press’ Asterisk Anthology Vol. 2, the story started with a swathe […]

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The story behind the story: Tayaran

October 20, 2018 christammillerFiction, Short Stories

The idea for this story is fairly straightforward. The local Islamic Center offered a screening of the documentary, “Salam Neighbor,” and I was curious, so I went. Watching the film, I began to wonder: how would my son, then 10, cope with living in a refugee camp?

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How #metoo drove my second novella

September 28, 2018September 28, 2018 christammillerFeatured, Fiction, Musings

I posted this to Instagram on Monday, September 24, my brief contribution to the #BelieveSurvivors walkout organized by the #MeToo movement founder Tarana Burke: Later that week, listening to Christine Blasey Ford’s testimony, I became unexpectedly enraged. I found so […]

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Revisiting some old (fictional) friends

August 6, 2018August 6, 2018 christammillerFiction, Writing Process

In April I blogged about going with the flow of some time-worn astrological advice to revise some fiction that had been rejected. With Mercury again in retrograde this month, while I got back to work on another dystopia that I’d […]

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