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  1. “Up Late, Late At Night: Episode Two, Act Two” – a new script by Thomas Typewriter

    -----------<.thom.ophi>----------- Up Late, Late At Night an abstract on treasure versus trash in modern film Episode 002 Act II By Thomas Typewriter & Ophidia Typewriter-Operahouse (c) 2026 Jason Arcand & Suzanne Arcand-----------<:type.house:>----------- FADE IN TO BLACK FADE IN EXT. TRUCC NUTZ HIGHWAY AND ON-RAMP, DAYTIME LS OF THE HIGHWAY AND ON-RAMP The highway stands empty. From stage-left enters a semi-truck covered in logos for KON-SATOSHI ELECTRONICS. It drives down the […]

    thomastypewriter.art/2026/07/0

  2. “Up Late, Late At Night: Episode Two, Act Two” – a new script by Thomas Typewriter

    -----------<.thom.ophi>----------- Up Late, Late At Night an abstract on treasure versus trash in modern film Episode 002 Act II By Thomas Typewriter & Ophidia Typewriter-Operahouse (c) 2026 Jason Arcand & Suzanne Arcand-----------<:type.house:>----------- FADE IN TO BLACK FADE IN EXT. TRUCC NUTZ HIGHWAY AND ON-RAMP, DAYTIME LS OF THE HIGHWAY AND ON-RAMP The highway stands empty. From stage-left enters a semi-truck covered in logos for KON-SATOSHI ELECTRONICS. It drives down the […]

    thomastypewriter.art/2026/07/0

  3. "Fiction admits it's lying. Non-fiction pretends it isn't."
    A writer tries to start a story with a difficult first line. The AI gives her an answer. But is it the truth?
    medium.com/first-line-fiction/
    #Fiction #Writing #MetaFiction

  4. "Fiction admits it's lying. Non-fiction pretends it isn't."
    A writer tries to start a story with a difficult first line. The AI gives her an answer. But is it the truth?
    medium.com/first-line-fiction/
    #Fiction #Writing #MetaFiction

  5. “The Great Works Project: Season Seven, Episode Five” by Thomas Typewriter – a new script

    -----------<.thom.>----------- THE GREAT WORKS PROJECT a puppet play in many parts Season 07, Episode 05 By Thomas Typewriter (c) 2026 Jason Arcand-----------<:type:>----------- FADE IN TO BLACK From the center bottom of the frame scrolls up the following text: “07-05”. It scrolls up to the center of the frame, pauses, then continues scrolling. It exits the frame in the top center. Across the dark screen drifts the sound of TYPEWRITER KEYS CLICK CLACKING. FADE OUTFADE IN LS OF […]

    thomastypewriter.art/2026/06/2

  6. “The Great Works Project: Season Seven, Episode Five” by Thomas Typewriter – a new script

    -----------<.thom.>----------- THE GREAT WORKS PROJECT a puppet play in many parts Season 07, Episode 05 By Thomas Typewriter (c) 2026 Jason Arcand-----------<:type:>----------- FADE IN TO BLACK From the center bottom of the frame scrolls up the following text: “07-05”. It scrolls up to the center of the frame, pauses, then continues scrolling. It exits the frame in the top center. Across the dark screen drifts the sound of TYPEWRITER KEYS CLICK CLACKING. FADE OUTFADE IN LS OF […]

    thomastypewriter.art/2026/06/2

  7. Metafiction Makes You Choose

    Author Kevin Hincker discusses the impetus of writing a metafiction and where it took him (and hopefully his readers) instead.
    The post Metafiction Makes You Choose appeared first on Writer's Digest.
    writersdigest.com/metafiction-

    #Genre #Literary #WriteBetterFiction #character #Metafiction

  8. Metafiction Makes You Choose

    Author Kevin Hincker discusses the impetus of writing a metafiction and where it took him (and hopefully his readers) instead.
    The post Metafiction Makes You Choose appeared first on Writer's Digest.
    writersdigest.com/metafiction-

    #Genre #Literary #WriteBetterFiction #character #Metafiction

  9. AT LONG LAST, the audacious meta-autofiction collaborative novel by Helen DeWitt and Ilya Gridneff gets the beautiful print edition it deserves. If you like literary puzzles and fragmentary narratives, it’s for you. SOLID Ϙ

    dalkeyarchive.store/products/y

    @bookstodon

    #book #Books #bookreview #bookreviews #bookstodon #fiction #experimentalfiction #autofiction #metafiction #SmallPressSunday

  10. AT LONG LAST, the audacious meta-autofiction collaborative novel by Helen DeWitt and Ilya Gridneff gets the beautiful print edition it deserves. If you like literary puzzles and fragmentary narratives, it’s for you. SOLID Ϙ

    dalkeyarchive.store/products/y

    @bookstodon

    #book #Books #bookreview #bookreviews #bookstodon #fiction #experimentalfiction #autofiction #metafiction #SmallPressSunday

  11. I've been lying on this sofa for weeks. The murder's about to be solved. But the readers keep interrupting. And Nico? Nico wrote me into this mess.
    New flash fiction: medium.com/microcosm/how-long-
    #FlashFiction #Metafiction #Humor

  12. The Devil says God is insecure. I say #Wilp is the best thing you'll read this year. #Metafiction #MustRead #Books

  13. The Devil says God is insecure. I say #Wilp is the best thing you'll read this year. #Metafiction #MustRead #Books

  14. “On top of a wild height, called Cowanscroft, where the lands of three proprietors meet at one point, there has been, for long & many years, the grave of a suicide…”

    Hogg’s ingenious metafictional pre-publicity for the CONFESSIONS… (Blackwoods 1823)

    6/10

    publicdomainreview.org/collect

    #Scottish #literature #JamesHogg #romanticism #gothic #18thcentury #19thcentury #postmodern #metafiction

  15. “On top of a wild height, called Cowanscroft, where the lands of three proprietors meet at one point, there has been, for long & many years, the grave of a suicide…”

    Hogg’s ingenious metafictional pre-publicity for the CONFESSIONS… (Blackwoods 1823)

    6/10

    publicdomainreview.org/collect

    #Scottish #literature #JamesHogg #romanticism #gothic #18thcentury #19thcentury #postmodern #metafiction

  16. 7 Recently Published Meta Mysteries

    These seven recently published meta mysteries that will delight and surprise you as they play with the form in different ways.
    bookriot.com/meta-mysteries/

    #MysteryThriller #UnusualSuspects #metafiction
    @indieauthors

  17. 7 Recently Published Meta Mysteries

    These seven recently published meta mysteries that will delight and surprise you as they play with the form in different ways.
    bookriot.com/meta-mysteries/

    #MysteryThriller #UnusualSuspects #metafiction
    @indieauthors

  18. Is This Anything?

    A trilogy of novels where each one skips big chunks of chapters but still tells a full story. Years later, the missing chapters show up in the next book, and then the last book finishes the rest.

    Each stands alone, but if you put all three together in order, you end up with one complete novel hiding inside them.

    #iTA #isThisAnything #bookidea #storyconcept #novelstructure #trilogy #experimentalfiction #writingprompt #storypuzzle #metafiction

  19. will have a conversation with Pedro Bernstein & Freek Lomme at Sans Seriffe bookshop, Amsterdam, this Thursday at 6.30pm

    #artistbooks #metafiction #designfiction

  20. My new fiction project. The Civic Underground Coming — short stories and meta fiction set in a Technofuedalist future. #scifi #fiction #metafiction open.substack.com/pub/civicund...

    Case Study: The Fall of Canber...

  21. Youss limped in the door, took off his shoes and lay down on the couch, sighing.

    “Hey, where were you?”

    He looked up from rubbing his foot. “Blister.”

    “Really, a one word response after disappearing for two hours?”

    “Writer’s block. I was trying to walk it off. Those shoes were not made for walking.”

    “What were you working on?”

    “Just those MastoPrompts. Some days they work, others not.”

    “And today?”

    “Nothing. Not a single word.”

    “Well, you can always try again tomorrow.”

    #MastoPrompt #lay #blister
    #microfiction #metafiction

  22. Youss limped in the door, took off his shoes and lay down on the couch, sighing.

    “Hey, where were you?”

    He looked up from rubbing his foot. “Blister.”

    “Really, a one word response after disappearing for two hours?”

    “Writer’s block. I was trying to walk it off. Those shoes were not made for walking.”

    “What were you working on?”

    “Just those MastoPrompts. Some days they work, others not.”

    “And today?”

    “Nothing. Not a single word.”

    “Well, you can always try again tomorrow.”

    #MastoPrompt #lay #blister
    #microfiction #metafiction

  23. Since I can't rely on Meta getting an injunction against me and creating a Streisand Effect I'll do this the old-fashioned way.

    New! By me! P-AI-perback Writer!

    Can AI really produce creative writing?

    *Youtuber voice* Please like and share!

    newslttrs.com/p-ai-perback-wri

    #writing #AI #CreativeWriting #Newsletter #ArtificialIntelligence #OpenAI #SamAltman #Metafiction #Meta

  24. New book alert in our collection! 💥

    This study by Colleen Eils examines how #metafiction|s by contemporary Native, Latinx & Asian American authors explore "The Politics of Privacy" in post-9/11 texts!

    Find it here: opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=

    #AmericanLiterature #LiteraryStudies

  25. > ...declared that all paths for the #novel had already been taken, and then blazed new ones for generations of awe-struck followers.

    nytimes.com/2024/04/02/books/r

    #metafiction #johnbarth

  26. mat-real : Material Realisms in Contemporary British Literature

    > We aim to engage with texts that process our new experience of such realities and present a universe characterised by an “enmeshing of matter and thought, of embodied aesthetic experience and critical experience"...a far cry from the binarisms of yesteryear and the metafictional defamiliarization that went along with them.

    7-8 November 2024

    mat-real.sciencesconf.org/

    #conferences #metafiction #literature #uk #fr @bookstodon

  27. mat-real : Material Realisms in Contemporary British Literature

    > We aim to engage with texts that process our new experience of such realities and present a universe characterised by an “enmeshing of matter and thought, of embodied aesthetic experience and critical experience"...a far cry from the binarisms of yesteryear and the metafictional defamiliarization that went along with them.

    7-8 November 2024

    mat-real.sciencesconf.org/

    #conferences #metafiction #literature #uk #fr @bookstodon

  28. "In 2001, everything changed. Cercas exploded onto the literary scene with his novel Soldiers of Salamis, which sold more than a million copies worldwide, won numerous awards, and was quickly turned into a major film."

    lithub.com/autofiction-without

    #books #bookstodon #metafiction

  29. Haikuna is our first video game and it's one that you play inside of 3 books: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Journey to the Center of the Earth, and Don Quixote.

    haikuna.com

    Give it a try and let us know what you think!

    #games #books #metafiction #donquixote #oz #julesverne #text #yokai #haiku #wordgame

  30. “On top of a wild height, called Cowanscroft, where the lands of three proprietors meet at one point, there has been, for long & many years, the grave of a suicide…”

    Hogg’s ingenious metafictional pre-publicity for the CONFESSIONS… – published in Blackwoods Magazine, 1823

    #Scottish #literature #18thCentury #19thCentury #Gothic #Romanticism #metafiction #postmodern

    6/8

    publicdomainreview.org/collect

  31. “Welcome to the complex, schizophrenic, and even (dare I say it) metafictional world of THE PRIVATE MEMOIRS & CONFESSIONS OF A JUSTIFIED SINNER…”

    The Sheffield Gothic blog explores James Hogg’s most famous novel

    2/8

    #Scottish #literature #18thCentury #19thCentury #Gothic #Romanticism #metafiction #postmodern

    sheffieldgothic.home.blog/2015

  32. caelastory.blogspot.com/?zx=c4

    Something Sacred
    #fiction #metafiction #witchfolk #future #scifi #society
    Prologue

    In the time of antiquity, back before our written records, we are told that humans and gods freely played together and created a beautiful city in the heart of an exquisite landscape where all were free yet happy...

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