Category Archives: Writing
Christmas Creep…For Writers
September is in its final act this year. October is checking itself out one last time in the backstage mirror before making it’s entrance. (And there is my quota of theatre metaphor’s for the day.) The Halloween stuff has been out for two weeks or so. But just as October lies in wait to take …
Short Fiction Contest Guidelines…Wow.
I mentioned last week I have been looking more seriously at short fiction contests between now and the end of the year. I’ve already submitted to two of them, one a flash fiction contest, and another for “regular” sized short fiction, if you will. Today I picked the next contest I’ll submit to, and which …
Opinion on Opinions.
I have an opinion on something. Actually I have an opinion on many things. Believe or not, many of them are actually informed opinions. I wouldn’t have this blog if I didn’t want to share some of those opinions with the general public. As a writer, I do so in writing most often, I would …
“High-Concept” Fiction
I’ve read a few novels or stories that become too bogged down with world-building or what I call “concept obsession.” The former tends to happen in fantasy and sci-fi the most, and the latter can happen in any high concept piece. (Hence the term.) I find a lot of high concepts intriguing. As a concept …
Contest Submission Complete
True to my word as expressed last month, yesterday I entered a larger scale writing contest than my norm. Entrance fee and everything. It’s said and done now, so there is no undoing it. I’m not wild about having paid 20 bucks for the chance to lose. Yet I trust, for the most part, the …
Ty Unglebower 