Jeremiah Tolbert

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On Richness

Lately, I’ve been try­ing to iden­tify where my writ­ing really dif­fers from the stuff that’s great, great writ­ing. There are a hell of a lot of places, but I’ve fix­ated for a while now on this con­cept of rich­ness. The sto­ries that *really* blow me away exude infor­ma­tion and con­fi­dence. They are full of a […]

What Is a Podcastable Story?

Greg Van Eekhout asks: Thoughts on what kinds of sto­ries trans­late well to pod­casts and what kinds don’t? First of all, full dis­claimer. I am the man­ag­ing edi­tor at Escape Pod, the sci­ence fic­tion audio pod­cast. I’ve been doing this job for about 3 or 4 months now, and I am by no means an expert […]

Postmortem: What the hell was #futureJer?

My 3 month long exper­i­ment in 140 char­ac­ter fic­tion posts ended on Sunday.  You can read my ser­ial fic­tion #future­Jer on the Thaumatrope web­site here.  The premise was  pretty sim­ple: I attempted to imag­ine my life 2 years into the future if our econ­omy doesn’t get any bet­ter.  It’s fairly grim, but has a touch […]

First Story of 2009: Engines of Survival, by Larissa Kelly

At least, the first one I have read.  My goal is to read at least one a week now that I am writ­ing again.  My think­ing is Strange Horizons Fiction: Engines of Survival, by Larissa Kelly. It’s always the lit­tle things in the future that are the hard­est to adjust to. You’ll be walk­ing in the […]