About this blog

I read, I write, I rant, I repent. Then I read some more.

When I became a Whitney Academy member for the 2008 awards, this blog evolved into a discussion of my ideas on LDS fiction, which fascinates me. I’m a newbie trying to navigate my way through what’s out there currently, and through books on writing, as well as the LDS fiction I should have read earlier. For LDS fiction, my review policy is this: if I really like the book I may review it. Or not; my failure to mention a book doesn’t mean I didn’t like it. And if I don’t like the book… then I may talk in general terms about the principles of storytelling I’m reading about that I feel could be stronger in that book and others like it.

But here’s the deal: I haven’t written a book myself. I’ve published some essays and a few poems, and that’s it. All the published novel writers out there, including the ones I am using to pontificate about improvements to LDS literature, know way more about the discipline and craft of writing than I do. I love the theory; they know the practice.

At some point I want to be diligent enough to write seriously, but it hasn’t happened yet. Blogging, though, that I can do. Sporadically, of course.

I also edit and write for Segullah: Writings by Latter-day Saint Women.

contact info: emilymilner [at] byu [dot] net