Archive - The Nature of the Fun

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Serious Fun: How Play Can Transform Your Creative Writing

Jun 4 •

Kristopher Jansma

May 2025

What a bunch of productivity books ended up teaching me about creativity

May 30 •

Kristopher Jansma

Making it New (Again)

Recently, I was invited to give a reading with a local writing group as part of National Poetry Month.

May 6 •

Kristopher Jansma

February 2025

By Any Other Name

How do writers come up with the right name for their characters?

Feb 25 •

Kristopher Jansma

January 2025

Why I love titling stories before I've even written them

Jan 13 •

Kristopher Jansma

Proust to Power

My plan for 2025

Jan 2 •

Kristopher Jansma

November 2024

On recovering creatively from disappointment, burnout, and... joy?

Nov 12, 2024 •

Kristopher Jansma

October 2024

Thank You, Next

This October... another book launch? Welcome to the world, REVISIONARIES!

Oct 2, 2024 •

Kristopher Jansma

September 2024

Talking about Slaughterhouse Five at the NYPL

Sep 28, 2024 •

Kristopher Jansma

What’s in an Epigraph?

How my quest for 11 lines of a poem led me on a strange odyssey to a "religion of non-conformist thinkers" in Holland.

Sep 9, 2024 •

Kristopher Jansma

August 2024

In Four Days: Our Narrow Hiding Places

Some exciting updates!

Aug 9, 2024 •

Kristopher Jansma

July 2024

Advice from Me to Me

If you could go back in time and give your younger self advice about writing, what would it be?

Jul 23, 2024 •

Kristopher Jansma

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