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Hey friends. Got an email this week I m excited to get into. A young writer, let s call them Blake, reached out about help with their magic system. I actually did a whole episode about magic systems on the Fantasy Writing for Barbarians podcast, but this was back in 2024, and so much has changed, right? ... Go on... The Magic System Trap (And How to Escape It) The post The Magic System Trap (And…
Hey friends. As many of you have no doubt noticed by now, this past year has been a bit of a turning point for me as a fiction writer. I started 2025 with a newly revised fantasy novel just completed and plans to begin submitting more short stories while in between projects. I was absolutely ... Go on... What I Published in 2025 The post What I Published in 2025 appeared first on Jon Negroni .
Hey friends, it s been some minutes. Last month, I was super thrilled to be published in a new short story anthology from Speculation Publications. It s called Aurora: Tales of Winter Dreams Winter Lore 3 and the story I published with them is called Don t Wake Up Too Fast. Please consider giving it a look ... Go on... How I Write Puerto Rican Magical Realism The post How I Write Puerto Rican…
Stephen King s horror endures for a lot of reasons, but if I had to pick a roundabout thesis it would be this. His stories endure because he fuses everyday American realism with mythic, cosmic menace. And he renders it all through a relentlessly readable prose and deeply inhabited characters. And and I say all of this ... Go on... How Stephen King became Horror Royalty The post How Stephen King…
Every writer I know has gone through a Hemingway phase. Some of us never recover! You start out thinking he’s overrated. He s some guy your high school English teacher quoted to sound deep. Then one day you reread Hills Like White Elephants and realize you ve been trying to write like that for years. The story’s about abortion, ... Go on... The Heming Way is a Clean, Well-lighted Sentence The post…
I want to share a poem I wrote about seven years ago and dig into how it was made. The funny thing is that what reminded me of this poem recently was the Chapell Roan song "The Subway." The post Porch Light appeared first on Jon Negroni .
Earlier this year, I submitted a short story to the Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival (BCLF) for their 2025 Short Fiction Story Contest. It has two prizes, of which I qualified for one of them as a Caribbean-American writer. Wouldn t you know it, I received an email in August letting me know that I was on ... Go on... The Finalist and How I Write Scenes The post The Finalist and How I Write…
I was always the writer but never the illustrator. I put myself in that box on purpose because I have a tunnel vision mentality. I told myself to hone all the writing stuff, to avoid focusing on other forms of artistic expression because, well, they didn t come as easily. I was a pretty mean person ... Go on... Learning to draw something The post Learning to draw something appeared first on Jon…
It's sad to admit, but these days I'm struggling to find time for all the various projects I'm in romantic love with. The post Short Stories, Pixar Theories, and Zombie Rabbits appeared first on Jon Negroni .
I ll be honest. Until now, I ve been pretty uninterested in Luca, the next Pixar film. It s due to release this June, but we still don t know much about Enrico Casarosa s first feature film. That changed dramatically this week with the release of an exclusive preview in Empire magazine. It includes a new screenshot along with ... Go on... Pixar s Luca – Brand New Story Details, Theories, and More…