Much like last year, the holidays have got me in an artistic funk. And much like last year, I’ve let that funk keep me from enjoying any sort of creativity as well as enjoying the holidays.
The whole scenario has got me thinking about my own priorities and where the many things in my life lie.
I’ve started this post at least five times in the last ten minutes which is possibly another sign of the trend I’ve noticed. I can’t decide what I want to do. I mean, I know that I have all this creative energy that I need to find a home for, but the question of how I want to spend it is still unanswered.
My interview with K. D. Wentworth has gone live over at Fantasy Magazine. It’s a non-fiction credit but a credit is a credit. Go check it out!
As most of my handful of readers know, David Steffen and I have started a zine together called Diabolical Plots. It is a site for writers and fans of the genre that keeps those of us that are simply too brilliant for real life to entertain, speculative fiction. We cover the full gamut of medium in which this genre lives including movies and video games.
As an aspiring writer I find the internet to be an extremely valuable tool as well as a colossal drain on my writing time. There are fantastic resources available to new writers that quite frankly I would not have survived without. On the other hand, even these great resources can be an excuse not to [...]
Thanks for Joni over at The Writers of the Future contest; I now know that I’ve received my second Honorable Mention in a row. What does that mean? Not a lot really. Don’t get me wrong, it means that my story was in the top 50 or so out of thousands of entries but beyond [...]
Well my writing is back into high gear. I mailed a new story off today to the Writers of the Future contest. That makes five straight quarters that I have entered. I haven’t heard anything from last quarter yet so I’m still holding out hope that my name is on the short list. We’ll see. [...]
This post is titled Working Title because I finally feel like I’m working again in my writing. I’ve sent out three stories in the past two weeks; old stories that have been out around the block before but stories with promise. One story went out to the Writers of the Future contest while the other [...]
As I’ve noted before, Charles Coleman Finlay produced a wonderful story this past year that was featured in Fantasy and Science Fiction Magazine. I loved the story the first time through and recently re-read it with just as much excitement as the first time.
I’ll start this post off with some good news. My story for the previous quarter of The Writers of the Future contest received an honorable mention. This is my first story to receive anything more than a form rejection from them since I began submitting, three quarters ago, so it’s a good milestone. However, my [...]
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