Thoughts on Creative Nonfiction
Ever since Submitit started handling creative nonfiction a few years ago, I’ve acquired the uncomfortable notion that many writers of...
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Erik Harper Klass
Jul 145 min read
A Few Words on How I Edit
My Editing Philosophy Like all good editors, I’m concerned with those elemental, essential aspects of writing, including plot,...
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Erik Harper Klass
Jun 112 min read
Submitit's Client Portal
Submitit has recently (July 11, 2024) introduced a huge update: an (almost) magical platform. While in the past, Erik and Christine used...
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Erik Harper Klass
Jun 213 min read
Style: Chapter 1, Section 2: Long Sentences
For an introduction to these essays on style, click here.) In my last style post (section 1), I got into the art of writing short, simple...
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Erik Harper Klass
Apr 2116 min read
This Is an Essay on Run-on Sentences[,] and I Hope You Enjoy It
The above is from Jon Fosse's brilliant Septology. My corrections are ironic. First of all, I’d like to forewarn the reader. The...
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Erik Harper Klass
Apr 17 min read
Erik Harper Klass Searches for Erik Harper Klass: Part 2
As some of you may recall, a few weeks ago I received an email from a certain Erik Harper Klass, which email contained a...
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Erik Harper Klass
Feb 263 min read
Amazon Rejected a Review of My Novella (I Think)
A few days ago I received the following review of my novella. The review was sent anonymously—or, I should say, homonymously—to my...
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Erik Harper Klass
Feb 108 min read
Style: Chapter 1: Sentences
A good first step in developing style is to focus on the structures and combinations of sentences. All the great writers seem to...
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Erik Harper Klass
Jan 275 min read
Style Essays: Introduction
I am enamored of style. Style—that destination, that endgame, of what I call the writer’s craft —encompasses the quality of a writer’s...
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Erik Harper Klass
Nov 10, 20236 min read
A Guide for the Formattingly Perplexed
Since part of my job is to work on—which is to say, less euphemistically, “to fix”—formatting issues with the stories and essays I...
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Erik Harper Klass
Oct 14, 20233 min read
The Ephemerality of Literary Journals
(First of all, am I the only one who can’t seem to get enough of the word ephemeral? It kind of rolls off the tongue. Never gets...
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Erik Harper Klass
Jun 30, 20239 min read
1,001 Ways to Find Literary Journals for Your Story (Without Actually Having to Read Them)
(This post was published in slightly different form in Chill Subs.) A selection, based on personal experience: 1. Since my...
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Erik Harper Klass
Apr 5, 20236 min read
The Possibly Impossible Task of Ranking Literary Journals
I wrote a post not long ago about how I evaluate literary journals, focusing mostly on smaller and usually newer ones. These journals are...
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Erik Harper Klass
Feb 19, 20237 min read
Why the Author (Usually (but Not Always)) Eschews Nested Square Brackets
Are you familiar with the prescriptivism vs. descriptivism debate in re grammar and usage? It’s a doozy. . . . The prescriptivists tend...
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Erik Harper Klass
Jan 7, 20233 min read
The Two Commandments of Lit Mag Acceptances
When it comes to the ethics of getting work accepted at literary journals, the submission gods hath spoken, the prophet hath come down...
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Erik Harper Klass
Dec 6, 20228 min read
“I’d like to talk about formatting and punctuating dialogue,” said Erik Harper Klass gleefully.
(Preliminary note: The author does not recommend or condone using adverbs with dialogic attributives. In the title above, and...
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Erik Harper Klass
Oct 23, 20224 min read
Submitit's Three Submission Strategies
If you’ve signed up for a Submitit submissions package, you know that we submit your story to up to twenty journals, in two rounds of...
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Erik Harper Klass
Sep 15, 20228 min read
How to Write a Winning Bio and Story/Essay Blurb for Literary Journals
Usually literary journals ask writers for a third-person bio. And a few ask for a story or essay “blurb” (generally optional) that...
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Erik Harper Klass
Aug 17, 20224 min read
Bake Your Stories
I have learned over the years that it’s important to let my work sit for a while when I’ve completed a draft. I’ve come to call this...
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Erik Harper Klass
Jun 22, 20225 min read
Glass, Fire, and Siamese Lambs: How Field Research Can Improve Your Writing
For a long time, I dreaded conducting field research for my fiction writing. I think this goes back to my early writing days: ah, those...
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