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Getting The 2012 Novel & Short Story Writer’s Market This Year?

July 31, 2011 by · Comments Off
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After I got serious about being a fiction writer five years ago, I always bought a copy of “The Novel & Short Story Writer’s Market” (Writers Digest Books) to find new markets for my short story fiction. Every six weeks I would spend a weekend browsing through the current N&SSWM, finding markets that fit my [...]

Letting Short Stories Lie Fallow

September 1, 2010 by · Comments Off
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This summer I took a break from the boring admin tasks of keeping 35+ short stories in circulation by letting them lay fallow after coming back with rejection slips to focus my time on revising my first novel. My tracking spreadsheet turned red over the last three months. Only a few recent short stories that [...]

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 [...]

The Non-Universal RTF File Format

June 30, 2010 by · Comments Off
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Over the past year or so, I have switched from submitting my short stories via snail mail to email. That decision was driven by both economics and practicality. Being without a full time non-writing job for 16 months had forced me to reduce expenses everywhere to be able to live on my unemployment benefits. Fewer [...]