Last night I wrote on my notepad “YOU MUST WRITE TODAY. A LOT.” And I left it on top of my phone on my bedside table, so it would be the first thing I saw when I woke up today.
Everyone needs reminding once in awhile
Tonight I was brainstorming new short story ideas, when suddenly I wrote on my legal pad in all-capital letters: “STOP LOOKING FOR A GIMMICK OR A ONE-LINER, TELL A GODDAMN STORY ALREADY”. Nice to know that will still come kicking
Campaign ’11
I have begun my new round of lit magazine submissions. My initial goal was to select 30 targets, and I ended up with 27, which feels fine. Eight submissions are done, but this is going to take a couple of
Good for business
I’m starting to map out the next submission blitz in the lit. mag. world. It’s been about six months since my last one, and I’m going to have a stronger set of material this time around. I’ve done productive edits
Maybe I should eat at his restaurant when I’m in SF next week
Today I decided to revive my membership at Zoetrope.com, Francis Ford Coppola’s website with its many subdivided writing communities and affiliated Coppola business like movies and restaurants and the winery. Since I am investing more hours in this prose fiction
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The newest issue of the literary quarterly Blood Lotus has just been published, and includes my short story The Culling of the Beige. Peep the issue here, which also includes poems, and pretty pictures of food.
Monday just got drastically better
Good News, Everyone! [/Farnsworth] I just learned that the on-line lit quarterly Blood Lotus will be publishing a short story of mine in their next issue. I’ll be sure to share more details as the publication date approaches. The readers
This is how we do it
Got a rejection today from MAYDAY Magazine – I sent them How to Be Depressed in the Sunshine and they said it was a “really well written piece with flashes of brilliance” but that it “didn’t quite cohere enough as
Competition
The best score I have ever achieved on Dig Dug got bested. So I’m back in training. On the flip side, I breached 100,000 points on Donkey Kong for the first time – about 118K in total, as a matter
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The newest issue of the quarterly anthology Paradigm has just been published, and it includes my short story Tourist Trap. I’m feeling a lot of pride about this – it’s my first submission of prose fiction anywhere outside of my