Chris Angelis's Blog

Sleeping in the City of Abandoned Dreams is a short novel I recently wrote. It took me exactly 10 days to go from “blank page” to “edited, ready for publishing”. Of course this is unusual even by my standards (writing short, abstract, poetic fiction). What made this possible – and at the same time very […]

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Virtually all of my fiction writing advice focuses on art: It’s quality writing I care about, not marketing or how to make money with one’s fiction. Nonetheless, my posts still (even if indirectly) also explore marketing repercussions. Today’s topic, revolving around how to be a fiction writer in the AI era, is no exception. At […]

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In a recent discussion we had, my friend Igor used the term aesthetic education to refer to being exposed to a diverse set of artistic experiences in one’s formative years. I quickly realized that was a deceptively simple term, one containing vast universes of meaning. More importantly, I realized aesthetic education is a concept both […]

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It’s no accident “scammers” and “spammers” are only one letter apart. In most cases, their roles overlap. That is to say, scammers send a massive number of unsolicited email (spam) hoping a few naive people will take the bait. Obviously, Home for Fiction also receives some such traffic. I’ve several safeguards in place, so I […]

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This post has all the ingredients of an old man tilting at windmills or rosy retrospection and all that, but at least I have backups! That is to say, I’m not alone in lamenting the state of cinema today and dreaming of other cinematic realities. This post is based on an ongoing discussion I’m having […]

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If you missed the “new beginning” post, I recently decided to shake things up regarding Home for Fiction. By the way, this was a few months after I had already taken control of my own site, reprogramming it from scratch (on top of WordPress, of course) and getting rid of all the useless stuff. And […]

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When I make something new, such as a program, a book, or a music album, I often write a blog post about it. Sometimes this might span more than one post – think of The Perfect Gray and its review – but it’s far less often to see two different facets of the same work. […]

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Labor is dead; the era of work is over. And no, just because you are still employed in a sort-of-9-to-5 well-paying job, it doesn’t mean the statement is wrong – just as having just eaten doesn’t mean there’s no world hunger, or snowing where you are doesn’t mean there’s no such thing as climate change […]

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The Immigrant Trilogy comprises three previously published works: To Cross an Ocean: Apognosis, The Other Side of Dreams, and The Storytelling Cat. These three works can be read independently – indeed, the order doesn’t matter – but only by reading all three of them can a reader appreciate the full scope of the themes involved. […]

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“The future ain’t what it used to be” is an oft-quoted sentence. It’s supposed to be funny, but few realize it contains a concept that is important to writing and philosophy alike. This sentence contains what I refer to as a nested temporality. People usually think of the past, the present, and the future as […]

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