Archive | August, 2008

Stories sent out…

by Anthony on 28. Aug, 2008 in Writing

Wow, three posts in one day. Busy, busy. I mailed out my Writers of the Future fourth quarter entry today, a month prior to the due date. Go me! Everything I’ve read tells me they read in order of receipt. Which means they reject in order of receipt. ;) I also sent off another story [...]

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Carbonite.com

by Anthony on 28. Aug, 2008 in Writing

So this past weekend I gave myself a scare. After yet another bout with Vista (at least my third) I decided to upgrade to Windows XP Professional. This is on my main PC which doesn’t have much installed on it, Office 2007, World of Warcraft… that’s about it, so reinstalling an OS is really only [...]

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1000 Words: Day Three

by Anthony on 28. Aug, 2008 in Writing

I guess before I started this thing I didn’t notice how many days go by that I simply do not write. Currently I’ve got two stories that are somewhere in the revision process. It’s easy to get caught up in reworking and tweaking these stories. Last night, I didn’t really have anything to revise. Both [...]

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1000 Words: Day Two

by Anthony on 26. Aug, 2008 in Writing

Another tough day. I found that the resistance was strong today and it wasn’t until nearly bed time that I really found the inspiration to write. I revised my Writers of the Future 4Q story into what I believe will be my final draft. I gotta send it out to my ‘first readers’ and then [...]

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1000 Words: Day One

by Anthony on 25. Aug, 2008 in Writing

Well this proved difficult today. My primary goal was to revise my Writers of the Future story and then get started on a new story. I never got started on the new story. My revision efforts netted me 350 Anti-words and I rewrote/added to the ending for a whopping 324 words. That adds up to [...]

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1000 Word Challenge

by Anthony on 25. Aug, 2008 in Writing

In truth, I only have a handful of readers. Among them, only a few actually do so with any regularity. But those are people who are dear to me; people who I know in real life or online and I ‘see’ on a regular basis. Those same people are also people who read my work [...]

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Writers of the Future (2008 4th Quarter)

by Anthony on 16. Aug, 2008 in Writing

The fourth quarter deadline is still more than a month away but I think that my story is just about ready. I wrapped up the second draft last night and have already got some great feedback. I think it is about as good as I can get it so once I’ve integrated any changes from [...]

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On Writing by Stephen King

by Anthony on 13. Aug, 2008 in Writing

I just finished On Writing by Stephen King. I read it in less than two days which is by far the fastest I’ve ever read anything. His conversation style of writing delivers what could be very dry material in a way that is both compelling and informative. The book is broken into two major sections, [...]

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I’m disgusted…

by Anthony on 01. Aug, 2008 in Writing

I’m fortunate enough to live and work in an environment of tolerance and equality. So much so that it catches me off guard when I see someone act in a way that it degrading or offensive to another person’s race, religion, gender or sexual orientation. The recent events perpetrated by the Senior Editor of Helix [...]

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My first rejection! Woot!

by Anthony on 01. Aug, 2008 in Writing

I recently read an article based on Heinlein’s Rules that said that if you took 100 people who wanted to be a writer, 50 of them would never get around to writing anything. From the remaining 50 only 25 would actually complete a work. Of the 25 that actually finished a story, half would tweak [...]

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