Flash fiction project: one dark story per day, all the way through October, each one based on one normal thing gone wrong. More of this year’s stories here. You can find last year’s stories here, or at Amazon as October Nights. … Normal thing: Unexpected Friendships. … GETTING OVER IT Mom and me and Princess Cookie were riding […]
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Flash fiction project: one dark story per day, all the way through October, each one based on one normal thing gone wrong. More of this year’s stories here. You can find last year’s stories here, or at Amazon as October Nights. … Normal thing: Bookstore. … FINAL CLEARANCE EVERYTHING MUST GO For years I lived next to a
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Today begins a bunch of free short fiction for the month of October! I decided this year to go with a theme of “Normal things that people normally enjoy…gone wrong.” You can find last year’s stories here, or at Amazon as October Nights. … Normal thing: Coffee. … JUST ANOTHER MONDAY MORNING HELL So I’m just about
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I’m trying to look at books the way a librarian might, in order to help get me better at thinking from a reader’s point of view. Here are the other posts in the series. … Japanese Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edogawa Rampo is a collection of short stories set in Japan. The stories are all written
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This is part of a series on how to study fiction, mainly directed at writers who have read all the beginning writing books and are like, “What now?!?” The rest of the series is here. You may also want to check out the series on pacing, here, which I’m eventually going to fold into this series
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Amazon | Universal Buy Link | Goodreads | Author Website Author Facebook Page | Author Goodreads Page | Author Twitter Author Amazon Page Welcome to fellow author Shannon Lawrence! Previous interviews with Richard Bamberg, Rob Chansky, P.R. Adams, Megan Rutter, Jason Dias, and MJ Bell are also available. … 1. This collection is made up of short, creepy horror tales, not necessarily splatterpunk but not
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I’m trying to look at books the way a librarian might, in order to help get me better at thinking from a reader’s point of view. Here are the other posts in the series. … The Vegetarian is a short novel set in contemporary Korea. Yeong-hye is a housewife who, after a terrible dream, decides to become
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This is part of a series on how to study fiction, mainly directed at writers who have read all the beginning writing books and are like, “What now?!?” The rest of the series is here. You may also want to check out the series on pacing, here, which I’m eventually going to fold into this series
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Something that you have to do as an author is come up with story ideas: on time, on certain subjects, about 80% as expected and 20% new and fresh, and to fit with the rest of your work. Difficult. But what’s even more difficult are the requirements left unsaid: The idea has to generate a
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I’ve been working a lot on studying marketing lately. Not just indie book marketing, but the principles behind selling stuff. When I started out as a writer, I thought writing was mostly about putting one’s thoughts and feelings down on the page, and then some magic would happen, and people would like what I wrote
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