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Backstory.

Let us imagine, you and I, that we are watching a movie.  We move past the opening credits, during which the camera pans across the blackness of outer space, with a few stars here and there.  There’s a lot of text scrolling across the screen while heroic music plays…this takes two minutes. Then a spaceship […]

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New Slush Editor at Apex!

As you may know, I am trying to launch myself as a professional writer.  This has had its ups and downs, mostly a series of small, soul-eroding downs interspersed by a few interruptions almost-unbelieved ups. One of the series of small, soul-eroding downs is the short story rejections I receive.  I am at [checks Duotrope]

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How to POV

Please understand that this is a snapshot of what I know now.  If it doesn’t work for you–nevermind! Who tells the story, controls the story. Obviously, that means you, the writer.  You get to pick which stories you tell and how you feel about them.  This seems obvious until you start thinking about things like,

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How to Get Rejected

…As a short story writer, that is. I am making a serious effort to get better at short stories; a novel is a novel is a novel, but when I want to get into the fine edge of fiction, I read short stories.  I love them.  Especially horror short stories.  My favorite work of horror

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