Category Archives: My Writing
Convulsions
Saturday was a good day. Not only was it the Fourth of July, I had a drabble (a story of exactly 100 words) accepted for publication. The story is Convulsions and the market is Sex and Murder. I haven’t been submitting much lately, focusing on other projects, and it just felt good to have something [...]
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Writing with Sarah
I was able to skip out of work a little early yesterday and I took my daughter, Sarah, to It’s a Grind to write. We both have Dell Mini netbooks so we took them with us. It was a lot of fun and pretty productive, even though it’s not a real comfortable place to write. [...]
My Writing Journal
I have several blogs that I try to keep up with, and I always ponder what I should do on each of them, this being one of them. And I think I’ve decided, at least here. I have wanted to keep a writing journal. I’m not sure how exciting it will be, but I’m willing [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
Six Sentences
It finally happened. On Tuesday, September 9, 2008, I had Six Sentences published on the Six Sentences (http://sixsentences.blogspot.com/) website. I’ve blogged about Six Sentences before, but basically, you write six sentences about anything you want. Then you submit them, along with a short biography. Then you wait to see if they are accepted. If they [...]
My Superpower
Thursday night, with little or no fanfare, I received word that one of my short stories, My Superpower, had been accepted for publication by The Tiny Globule. And not only had it been accepted, it was already published. This is the fourth story I’ve had accepted for publication, but the first one actually published. It [...]
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A Day Without Writing