Category Archives: Writing
“Thank You For Ten” Update
My short story collection, Thank You For Ten: Short Fiction About a Little Theater, moves ever closer to self-publication. The last few weeks I’ve been teaching myself the basics of manuscript formatting for such an endeavor. (If you have never done it, it’s probably quite different from what you know about typing for printing on …
On Well Worn Notebooks, Occasionally Used
This is my current “go everywhere with me” ideas notebook that many people will tell writers they must have. It’s been around the block more than a few times. Or to be more accurate it has been in my pocket(s) more than a few times. It’s quite distressed. It’s possible I will need a new …
First Chapter Fixations: Giving Books a Real Chance
I recently read this post by one Blair Thornburgh about common reasons agents or publishers will stop reading a novel. The article even mentioned one professional who would draw a big red line under the moment they stopped reading. Though page and/or time limits for reading are not mentioned in the post, by the title …
Thank You For Ten Update
My work continues on my short story collection, Thank You For Ten: Short Fiction About a Little Theater. Not without it’s headaches, but I expected that. I mentioned in a previous post that I had decided on the order of the stories in the collection. That remains true, and I don’t see that changing. Then I …
A Sluggish/Not So Sluggish Writing Start to 2014
Hard to believe that the second month of 2014 is nearly done. (Even though it is the shortest month of the year.) At the end of last year, I set a series of writing goals for 2014, and I noticed that in some ways I’m doing well and in others I am not doing as …
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