by Jessica E. Thomas | Apr 24, 2014 | Journal
I write all my blog posts in my head, at three o’clock in the morning. It’s a problem because they never get written down. They are quite good though, and since I haven’t written them down, you’ll just have to trust me. š SPRING is here....
by Jessica E. Thomas | Dec 23, 2010 | Journal
This week in his blog post titled Can Christian Theology and Science Fiction Coexist? Mike Duran stated: There is a potential incongruity between Christian theology and speculative fiction. Christian theology articulates the known. Speculative fiction probes the...
by Jessica E. Thomas | May 6, 2010 | Journal
One of my college creative writing professors said, “Sometimes you need to know when to quit. Acknowledge you’ve learned all you can from that poem, short story, narrative. It’s as good as it’s ever going to get. Time to move on and apply what...
by Jessica E. Thomas | Apr 5, 2009 | Journal
Iāve been on the subject of showing versus telling for the last few weeks. Today, Iāve decided to play show and tell with my novel, The Exception. As I mentioned in a previous post, I struggled a bit with characterization when writing the novel. My main character felt...
by Jessica E. Thomas | Apr 2, 2009 | Journal
Last Monday I talked about showing versus telling and how the phrase āshow, donāt tellā has led to an overuse of showing in modern fiction. Young writers, eager to hone their craft, grasp onto the advice like a knife and hack all traces of telling from their stories,...
