Archive for July, 2010

Ye Olde Short Story Collection

July 21, 2010 by · Comments Off
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Last week I got notification that my short story collection wasn’t a winner in the 2010 Prairie Schooner Book Prize Series. A disappointment but not the end of the world. I knew it was a long shot. The winner was “Destroy All Monsters” by Greg Hrbek, who has an impressive literary resume that makes me [...]

Write, Revise, Submit, Repeat

July 15, 2010 by · 6 Comments
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Note: This is a special blog post for the “My Best Advice to New Writers” blogfest organized by Peevish Penman. If you want to be a prolific short story writer (Ray Bradbury wrote 400+ short stories during his career), you need to write, revise, and submit your short story. Then write the next short story [...]

Recovering From A Disappearing ISP

July 14, 2010 by · 1 Comment
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The ISP hosting my three websites and a dozen email accounts disappeared from the Internet for 36 hours last week, starting on Thursday morning at 10:00AM and ending Friday night at 9:30PM. If the outage had lasted less than 24 hours, I would’ve shrugged my shoulders and went on with life. Outages do happen from [...]

The Screen Writer Question

July 4, 2010 by · Comments Off
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Note: This blog post originally appeared on 16 July 2008 for my personal website, and updated here with notes. When I went to Borders this past weekend, I was specifically looking for any magazines with info on The X-Files: I Want To Believe that’s coming out on 25 July 2008. Amazingly, the pre-release publicity was [...]