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.
Tag Archives: Writers of the Future
Milestones
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.
Honorable Mention for the second quarter in a row…
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 [...]
What’s goin on?
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. [...]
Time for some Accountability…
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 [...]
Rejection is so, so sweet…
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 [...]
Stories sent out…
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 [...]
1000 Words: Day Two
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 [...]
1000 Words: Day One
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 [...]
