If you’ve read my blog before, you know that I often advocate seeking out small press magazines, anthologies, or electronic publishers to submit your work to if you’re just getting started. In my previous post, I wrote about some the benefits of submitting to smaller publications, but now I’d like to talk about some of […]
Big Opportunities From Small Places
The internet has been a blessing to fiction writers all over the world. There are so many outlets for writers to get their work published and out for people to see that, really, any writer can find at least a small degree of success. With the self-publishing boom, and the availability of print-on-demand and ebooks, […]
Five Links Friday 12/2/16
It’s already the first Friday of December. I don’t know what it’s like in your part of the country, but here in the midwest it’s freaking…winter, I guess. Rumors are flying that we’ll be buried in like seventeen feet of snow or something like that by this time next week, but who knows. If it […]
Dream Big
So why do you write? It’s a question I’ve been asked a bunch of times and every time I’m asked I answer the same way: I say that I write because I truly believe that someday it will be my “out.” I don’t want to spend my entire life working for a paycheck. I think […]
The Worst Writing Advice I’ve Heard
The internet is full of good writing advice. I like to think I contribute to that at least a little bit here on this blog, but I know it’s all subjective. One person’s good advice can just as easily be another person’s bad advice. And with that in mind, here is some of the writing […]
Five non-writing things to help maximize writing time for busy families
Finding time to write. It’s something I’ve written about quite a bit on this blog, and I even used time management for writers as the topic of our first podcast. But still, as we enter the final month of 2016, I believe there is more to be said on the topic. I’ve always said that […]
5 Questions About Query Letters
I often talk about how rejection letters don’t usually bother me. In some sense I even view them as a minor success since each rejection reminds me that at least I have a story finished. There is a lot you can learn from short story rejections and if you view them as a tool to […]
“Where do you get your ideas?”
I don’t know if it’s because I’ve always had a writer’s mindset (even though I didn’t start really writing until a few years ago) but the one question I’ve never really considered asking an author is “Where do you get your ideas?” It always just seemed like such a pointless thing to ask. A writer’s […]
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