Category Archives: WRITING

By nature I am at my best when deadline driven.  I make my framing customers very nervous as I work to a down-to-the-hour pickup of a finished piece.  Most likely it is just a learned response to my dominant procrastinator … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Just got my confirmation of registration for the Wesleyan Writers Conference in June, as well as that of a manuscript consultation with Josip Novakovich.  I’m scared. Continue reading →

While David is happily unwrapping his books, I am indeed in doubt about my feelings towards self publishing my own work. Being my own best critic (or so I think), having an overwhelming need for validation (personal flaw), and getting … Continue reading → Continue reading →

This well may be why writers write: to say the things inside your mind out loud and have it hailed as vivid imagination. Oh, how clever!  I’d have never thought of that! Nor would you want to live it on … Continue reading → Continue reading →

David St. Lawrence of Ripples has kindly left an informative and encouraging comment on my post below, and until my history paper’s done, I’ll be unable to respond adequately or even begin to read his series on self-publishing that I’ve … Continue reading → Continue reading →

It is good to keep work flowing in the Great Pipeline of Publication.  However, for one such as I, with manic tendencies, the hope is that the inflows coincide with one’s own current state of mind.  According to the cosmic … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Down to the last page of Flash Fiction, I’ve read them all.  A bunch to write notes up on, because in one way or another, they had something I’m seeking to learn.  Something I don’t have and may never, I … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Somewhere I heard that you should keep at least ten submissions out at a time.  With the first dozen being sent out last month, and two having been returned, I am picking out the next lit journals to send to. … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Now they all make it clear in the submission guidelines:  "We strongly suggest you acquaint yourself with the material we publish in  _______ before submitting."  I did.  I read as many stories in as many of the literary journals as … Continue reading → Continue reading →

All the signs lately are leading me away from the crooked path I’m walking. The Spring issue of Ploughshares came today.  There are 8 short stories, (6 fiction, 2 non-fiction) and 60, yes, 60 poems. Of the short stories, two … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Had to try this one: < Your Linguistic Profile: 45% Yankee 40% General American English 10% Upper Midwestern 5% Dixie 0% Midwestern What Kind of American English Do You Speak? Continue reading →

Some days you just want to give it all up; it’s going nowhere but it took a large chunk out of you to get there. Then someone says "Nice job on otto," and I get back up and dance again. Continue reading →

"1 oz = 437 1 /2 grains" This may mean nothing to you, but thanks to the internet, the easily found information above allowed me to easily determine the postage and return postage for the submissions I sent out a … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Quite a good meeting tonight.  A good showing, and diverse workshopping. We did a story, and as one member mentioned, we all seemed to be on the same track with what we read and where the story was going.  Some … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Okay everyone, where are you all now that I need you, huh? I knew it, the second I saw the mailman pull away from the curb and saw the thin large envelope in the mailbox (our mailbox is celebrating its … Continue reading → Continue reading →