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Writers’ League of Texas Agents and Editors Conference
I spent the weekend at the WLT Agents and Editors Conference. It starts on Friday evening, is all day Saturday and Sunday until noon. It doesn’t sound like that much, but it’s a brutal weekend. Most of it is spent stressing about pitching your novel the the agent you have an appointment with, or pitching [...]
The ROT Rally
ROT stands for Republic of Texas and the ROT Rally is the biggest motorcycle rally in the state. This year ROT came June 11-14. Thursday through Sunday. It usually goes something like this. Thursday, the vendors are all setting up. Everyone who’s camping sets up their campsite. They fill their coolers with ice and beer, [...]
ttyl by Lauren Myracle
I bought this book for a couple of reasons. One, it was pulled from a local middle school and it hit the news. I thought to myself, “if this is being pulled from the schools, then it’s probably something I wanted to read. And two, I have a daughter that is in 7th grade and [...]
Saving Abel, Seether, and Nickelback
I just got back, this second, from the concert listed above. I’m at a hotel where they don’t have free Internet so you’re not going to see it as instantly as I write it, but you’ll still see it. Having said that, I have to say, the concert was awesome. Saving Abel came on first [...]
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Six Words
So, there’s this unconfirmed legend that Ernest Hemingway once wrote six words that he considered his best work: “For Sale: Baby shoes – never used.” The searching I did on the Internet couldn’t confirm that Hemingway ever wrote that, but it did get me interested in what I could write in six words. I even [...]
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Micro-Fiction
As an author, I think it’s important to work on different writing styles. I’m not talking about genre, I’m talking about micro-fiction. First, there was flash fiction. Generally, flash fiction is a story of 1000 words or less. Some consider it a story of 500 words or less. Either way, it’s a short amount of [...]
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Time Off to Write
It happened over the Thanksgiving break, and it happened over the Christmas break. I had all this free time that I was going to use to write. But it didn’t work out that way. It never does. Good intentions, sure, but there are a million little things that get in the way. Shopping for presents, [...]
Writer’s Block
A friend of mine, Kimmmbo, suggested that I have writer’s block because I haven’t been blogging lately. She may be correct. Blogging can be difficult at times. You tell yourself that you’re going to blog every week, or twice a week, or whatever, but then weeks slip away with the keyboard silent and the blog [...]
Podcasts and Podcasting
So I recently had one of my short stories, Woman Called Witch, turned into a podcast by the folks at The Dunesteef Audio Fiction Magazine (http://dunesteef.com/). Okay, some of this is just bragging, but it also brings up the conversation of where podcasting fits in the bigger scheme of publication. I’m a pretty big fan [...]
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