The Nature of the Fun
Kristopher JansmaA newsletter about the role of "Fun" in creative writing (and how we can find it again)?
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A Brief History of the Death of the Novel
A while back I was asked to teach a class on the history of the novel, which, it turns out, I didn't really know anything about.
For all my training in proper dialogue formatting and Freytag’s Triangles, in the course of my education as a...
No AI Was Used to Write This Post
This has been a tough week in the struggle between the literary world and Artificial Intelligence. First the New York Times ran an article about how a new book The Future of Truth that purports to be about how AI is damaging our relationshi...
One Hundred Days of Journaling and Me
"journals" by gbSk
At the beginning of this year, I found myself facing an all-too-familiar problem. Instead of kicking off 2026 full of optimism and making plans for positive changes to my life and my writing, I was near to paralysis know...
Perseverance
NOTE: As I’ll discuss ad nauseum in this post, my short story “The Jejune Cruise” is out this week with literary magazine One Story. You can pick up a copy on their website, or become a subscriber and get a story every month, delivered righ...
Stochastic Plots
“Light chaos” by kevin dooley
Quick plug at the top… if you’ve been working on a novel, or if you’ve been wanting to start one, I’ll be offering a great new Novel Generator course in 2026 through the 92NY Unterberg Poetry Center. We’ll mee...
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Kristopher Jansma is the author of Why We Came to the City and The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards. Winner of the Sherwood Anderson Foundation Fiction Award.
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