In an episode of Start with This, Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor talk about the business of creating. So, look at the time you dedicate to your work (not your day job work) and plan on spending possibly as much as 90% of that time on the business of putting your work out in the …
I'm trying to stay calm in the storm of election season. In real life on a bad day, I tend to talk back to the radio, which is a silly thing to do. Right? Of course it is. Take a deep breath. Count to ten. But all that aside, I just had an art show …
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May is here! And I don't know what you're writing these days, but I'm taking a giant stab at Story-A-Day May. I've managed it before, but I'm not sure this time how chemo treatments are going to get in the way. To be accurate, how the side-effects are going to get in the way. But …
I came across a site I quite like, and the fellow over there is having a flash fiction writing challenge--a fairy tale upgrade in less than 1,000 words. The site is terribleminds. The fairy tale upgrade is this. The Mermaid There are other fish in the sea and June Mintz is a fish that keeps …
I think the loveliest time of the year is the pub date, I do. Don't you? Course you do! Wait. What? (A gold star to whomever gets the reference in my blog post title.) I'm taking part in Story-a-Day May. Are you? I'll post the stories over at The Fairy Tale Asylum. At the end …
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BBC Channel 4 seems to take issue with sharing videos----silly folks----but whatev because you should see this clip on dealing with rejection. The bit about "sucking out your eyes" was particularly funny to me. I'm getting ready to send more stories out into the world of literary journals. Either a story will be rejected (likely!) …
I may be jumping up and down in a panic. There is going to be a contest over at Story-a-Day. An author is going to judge stories written for the challenge----one story per writer. So, you know I'm staring at what I've written wondering which story to choose. It isn't life or death or anything...but …
Marta Pelrine-Bacon 