Posts Tagged ‘contest’

A NaNoWriMo Flash Short Story Collection

November 3, 2010 by · Comments Off
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Last year I had planned on taking up the 2010 National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) competition by completing the remaining 50,000 words for my second novel (1/3 done at 25,000 words) this month. I also expected revising my first novel to be done by now, which didn’t happen since editing a novel-length manuscript is really, really [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]