I worked on a story this weekend that had a split character in it. I read an article a few weeks ago about this kind of character, and I think it’s been on my mind ever since. There’s probably a technical name for this, but I can’t remember where I saw the article, and I […]
Last time we talked about how to select the genre for your piece. Now, we’re going to talk about how to select your market. You may be tempted to send your work to markets you know you can get into. I don’t recommend this. I believe you should always send your work to the markets
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I got onto a strange twitter thread yesterday called #zombieproverbs, in which we took various cliches and made them applicable to zombies, like “A brain in the hand is worth two in the skull” and whatnot. I was toodling along with things like, “Two’s company and three’s lunch,” and “When the going gets tough, the
A doppelganger is a “ghostly counterpart of a living person, a double, or an alter ego.” If a person looks in the mirror, and the face in the mirror does something different than the person making the reflection, or if there’s an evil twin of you running around and doing bad things you couldn’t possibly
Because I could easily spend the day stressed out today–I have an extraordinary amount of work to do, I’m not getting paid on time, and I don’t have time to take care of the other stuff that’s bothering me–I’m just going to put up my “Zen of the day” quote and hope for the best.
I think I’ve told everyone already, but I wanted to memorialize this on my blog, too, so I can come back to it on bad days. My short story at Three-Lobed Burning Eye, “The End of the World,” was an honorable mention in Ellen Datlow’s Best Horror of the Year, Volume 3. I went completely
I’ve had people ask for a summary of the presentation. We had a video camera and mikes up; if everything goes well, there should be a recording available via Pikes Peak Writers. The presenters were Angel Smits and Karen Fox. I wished Karen had used more examples in her part of the presentation (endings), especially
An extremely short story inspired by one of Chuck Wendig’s flash fiction challenges: write a story about “irregular creatures.” For some reason, trying to come up with an idea for this stuck in my craw…I tried out all kinds of things over the course of this week. Yesterday, waiting for my daughter to get out
I try to say something that makes Ray laugh every time I drop her off at school. I don’t plan these things, I just babble. Today, she said, “Well, mother?” I tried to push her out of the car, but no luck. So I said, “Well, actually, I don’t feel like going anywhere today, so
Okay, this isn’t really a book review. This is really personal, self-serving blather. The actual book review is this: Cate Gardner’s collection of short stories makes me incredibly jealous, so jealous, in fact, that I had to put the book down and walk away several times. It’s as though a modern-day woman had picked up
