As some of you know, I subscribed to the Writer's Digest Tutorials a few days ago. Yesterday, I finally took the time to sit down and go through one of them, specifically the "Opening Up: How to Create Captivating Opening Pages" by literary agent Kathleen Ortiz. You can find it and all other WD Tutorials here, if you are so inclined, and I highly recommend checking them out. The subscription idea is a wonderful thing, too... unlimited access to all Tutorials, for up to a year if you wish. I ... View Post
Writing Prompt Wednesday: a poem "Sandstone"
I have decided to start posting something creative every Wednesday, based on prompts found in various places, or maybe sometimes just based on whatever pops into my head at the moment! Today's prompt, though, is thanks to WriteWorld! "He wasn't sure it would hold his weight." he wasn't sure it would hold his weight, the diminutive little ledge of sandstone, hot orange in the midday sun. warm against his body the cliff presses, solid, false security. i won't let you fall, it whispers with ... View Post
Project List for March 2013
To help keep my thoughts in order these next few weeks, as we fast approach Camp NaNo (at reckless speed, really!), I decided to go ahead and track what I plan to get done for the rest of the month here, and cross items off the list as I go along. So, let's see, my "Ta-Da List" for the rest of March (and it will surely be TA DA if I manage to get it all done!): Choose, prepare, edit, and submit five poems to The Animal Literary Magazine (it ended up being three poems, because the others ... View Post
Submission #1 – Living the Vision
Well... it's done. Today, I submitted my first short story, "In Morte, Omnia" to my first professional market, Clarksworld Magazine. This process took weeks, I don't even know how long anymore, I'll have to look it up in my Writing Journal! Five drafts total, four wonderful betas, 3200 words (rounded up to the nearest hundred). Every spare moment of many days spent researching possible literary markets, only to then remember the SFWA and find a whole new list of membership-qualifying ... View Post
Castles in the Sky
*** When I was young (and by that I mean in middle school) and this whole notion and practice of writing novel-length original stories was still brand new to me, I found myself utterly fascinated with the entire process. I found it startling that I could begin a page having no idea what would follow, and yet after a few sentences were jotted down based on my vague idea of what should happen next, the story poured out with very little effort on my part. That didn't mean it was always entirely ... View Post
The Writing Journal
Earlier this week I suddenly had an idea for both my young adult fantasy novel and my sci-fi novel, but hesitated to write them in my usual "idea notebook". Although the idea notebook has worked very well in the past to preserve ideas before they vanish, it does become hard to look up those ideas later on when there is no order to them and no good way to organize them. I have also started typing ideas in various word documents on my laptop, and separating them according to story, but for some ... View Post
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