So I’ve decided to revisit some of my works that need editing, but thanks to the experience that I’ve earned from the past year, I will be approaching the stories differently. Each chapter will now be considered a short story to me. It must have an intriguing logline form from it, and its summary must …
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Rejection, it can either encourage you, ruin you, make you calloused, make you enraged, turn you off writing forever, or make you want to show that your piece is better than the last reviewer ever thought possible. In my writing career, I had not one success until I listened to my long suffering wife’s advice. …
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I’ve been silent for a few weeks, but that is not to say that I haven’t been active. For the last month, I have been involved in a job that is located two hours from my house, so most of my spare time has vanished as I commute. This did not stop me from writing. …
Well, October has come and gone. I believe that I was productive. I made a total of six submissions over the month with a total word count, after editing, of 22,000 words. Not bad, but the real evaluation of how productive October really was, will be if any of my submissions are published. In September …
It’s happened to me, again. There was an anthology guideline that caught my eye. After retreating to my thinking room, (The washroom, c’mon, we all think in there.) I came up with a story that sounded awesome to me. With phone in hand, I hurriedly scrawled out my synopsis, theme and characters. Then I retired …
On Wednesday morning I awoke to an email stating that my short story, Tooth, Claw and Fan had been accepted into Dogpatch Press‘ Dogs of War anthology. What an amazing feeling. One novel and one short story accepted within a month of each other. After years of struggle, countless rejections and much, much self-doubt, I am going to be …
And so begins my advertising campaign. It has started small. So far I have applied the strategy I like to call, “Getting my name out there.” This has consisted of finding anthologies that fit me styles and applying to them. Last month I submitted to two collections, Ghosts on Drugs and Dogs of War from Dogpatch Press. This month, being …
Fall has arrived, and between the busy season at work, and the many chores to prepare for the winter ahead, I’ve managed to keep writing in what little spare time remains. Last month I began a flurry of emails to writing groups as I begin to prepare my advertising for Genmos. Among the actions I’ve …
After disappearing from existence, Devlin Keper returns from his eight year exile in order to gather his children, bio-engineered weapons known as Genmos, in an attempt to protect them from the government that wants their investments returned, to dust. And today, the story is one step closer to being shared with the world. Stay …
