It goes without saying that every new writer should expect to receive pile upon pile of rejection letters. According to Duotrope.com, my overall acceptance rate for short stories is 13%, so if we want to view the glass as 87% empty then then that adds up to quite a few rejections (163 to be exact), […]
Five Links Friday 12/4/15
It’s the final month of the year. Lets make 2015 go out with a bang. Here are your five links to read over the weekend. 1. I don’t generally do book reviews, for a lot of reasons, but if you do write book reviews, or plan to in the future, you should read How to […]
The Biggest, Ugliest Thing
I’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about the plot of one of my WIP short stories lately. It’s one of those stories where I think the style it’s written in is pretty good, but the plot is pretty…blah. It’s a classic example of all style, no substance. Kind of like the early days […]
Five Links Friday 11/27/15
Happy Friday, ya’ll. Here is some stuff to read in between college football games. And if you don’t like football, that’s cool. Just don’t tell anyone and you’ll be fine. At least that’s the strategy that’s gotten me by for the last three or four decades. 1. For those of us who occasionally struggle with […]
5 More Awesome Quotes About Writing From The Pros
Here is a batch of some of my favorite quotes about writing (from writers) and what I like about them. It’s always great to check out stuff like this for both information and motivation 🙂 “When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.” – Ernest […]
Five Links Friday 11/20/15
Hey, it’s Five Links Friday! No theme this week, just five awesome writing-related links to check out. 1. Robin Rivera has a guest post at Write On Sisters discussing something I haven’t really thought about before: The Back-up Antagonist. 2. Do you like flash fiction? Do you like zombies? Then be sure to check out […]
“I have writer’s block”
What do you do when you have writer’s block? It’s something that happens to everyone every now and then, but what is writer’s block really? I’d say its most basic definition is that it’s a condition where–for whatever reason–a writer is unable to write. One could argue, however, that there is really no such thing; […]
Five Links Friday the 13th: 11/13/15
Another week has flown by and it’s not only time for Five Links Friday, but for Five Links Friday the 13th. Only two mere weeks ago, we posted a horror-themed 5 Links for Halloween, but we’re doing it again this week to celebrate horror, slashers, and writers of the dark arts everywhere. 1. Farah Penn […]
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