Tag Archives: WRITING

Again with the apologies for the lack of literary comment, but I have been reading, and reading, and reading. Really, that’s not just homage to Cormac McCarthy’s repetition style. It’s mostly flash fiction, short story, and poetry, and mostly in … Continue reading →

So here we are at Day #75 of the 100 Days Project. I hate it when what I might consider a landmark day produces less than top quality output. I was thinking of waiting and marking off day #76, or … Continue reading →

Well it’s Day #71 on 100 Days, and tomorrow will be Day #72. It will also be Day#1 of the 24/7 Challenge. Will I be able to keep up? What I’m going to try to do for the next three … Continue reading →

I’m having great fun with the 100 Days Project, now up to Day #35. What I’m noticing are the patterns that emerge from a dedicated and sustained effort. For example, in daily writing, even when given a starting point or … Continue reading →

Wow. Just learned something that maybe I knew but forgot or forgot that I knew: the importance of placement, of spacing, of a simple paragraph break. Example: “He said she just wanted a shoulder or money or something like that … Continue reading →

Well yes, I do go back and edit throughout the day–it’s just a habit that tears me between the rush of a story completed and the knowledge that it could have been better. #3 is based on a roadtrip, #4 … Continue reading →

Watched Timmons’ starting video this morning and knew exactly what my story was going to be. Started once again with the opening line and trusted it to stay strong all day while I was away before I wrote it down. … Continue reading →

I won’t go over the whole thing again here, but on Hypercompendia I posted about organizing my efforts, both in hypertext and traditional, in Tinderbox and what that has revealed to me: the need to write more regularly and edit … Continue reading →

It started with this article by Jason Sanford, sent to me by Dorothee Lang (Blue Print Review), Who Wears Short Shorts, Micro Stories and MFA Disgust. in StorySouth. Jason brings up some valid points about the changes in the literary … Continue reading →

(UPDATE: via Dorothee Lang (Blue Print Review), this most interesting echo of my own feelings: Jason Sanford, in storySouth — this may even call for another post.) Just remembered that May is Short Story Month (no, I don’t know who … Continue reading →