Category: Short Stories
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Marketing Tuesday: Finished with my survey results (and a game)
So, for as long as I’m doing Marketing Tuesdays, I’ve made myself a little image — with Scary Halloween Lettering, because for me at least, trying to wrap my head around marketing is scary. But I have the most amazing readers. I had a massive response to my three-question quiz. Thank you to every single…
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1021 words on The Owner’s Tale, and Lesson 7 of How to Write Short Stories
I’m writing The Owner’s Tale a little little differently than I usually work. I generally just do my first draft from beginning to end, but this time, because of the complexity of this story, I worked out the stages in the life of the Longview’s owner, and am having the owner tell the story of each…
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The Big Week of Fiction Only includes Getting My Ass Kicked
Monday morning… Wild Optimism. Will have Vipers’ Nest done by end of day Tuesday. Seven hours in, I was only a short way into the new bug-hunter’s sheet I’d started. Tuesday morning… Well, I’ll surely at least be finished with this one bug-hunter’s questions by the end of today. Seven hours later, I’d finished one…
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Stillness in the Heart of Chaos
After a gruelling two years in which I’ve written very little fiction but have: Built a stellar team of folks to help me run my writing site: Dan Allen – Developer Kirsten Bolda – Site Designer Cat Gerlach & Amy Padgett, Forum Head Moderators Carol Englehaupt – moderator Karen Lynn – moderator Chris Makowski…