Archive | September, 2008

Interesting Advice…

by Anthony on 30. Sep, 2008 in Writing

When I first started this writing thing I often read that it was a lonely craft. So many people wrote about how they felt like no one really wanted them to succeed and that if they did succeed, no one would notice. I thought this was interesting but dispatched it as not my problem. Well [...]

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The Race

by Anthony on 22. Sep, 2008 in Writing

Dean Wesley Smith has a great article in his archives about a competition that he and several writer friends embarked on early in his career. The basics premise of this competition was to encourage prolific writing and to generate professional sales. Here is how it works. For a given week, every short story you have [...]

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Pump Six by Paolo Bacigalupi

by Anthony on 17. Sep, 2008 in Writing

Okay, okay… I know I’m behind. This story comes from the September issue of Fantasy and Science Fiction, the October issue is already out, but I’ve just gotten around to reading it. Initially I intended to find Mr. Bacigalupi’s email address to tell him what a wonderful story this was but it doesn’t appear that [...]

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Rejection is so, so sweet…

by Anthony on 09. Sep, 2008 in Writing

Well I got my rejection letter from the Writers of the Future third quarter contest yesterday. This was my first entry into the contest. It seems like it was ages ago that I wrote this piece and in some regards it has been. While I only wrote the story in May of this year, I [...]

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