Acceptances and Rejections |
The marathon rewrite paid off with Union Dues: Send in the Clowns. Escape Pod sent me the contract for it yesterday. Good news, right? Indeed it is. But it's less interesting than the rejections I rec...
Posted by Jeff on Sat, 07 Apr 2007 09:02:00 PST |
The Rewriting Process |
It's always gratifying when an editor likes your submission enough to request a rewrite, it's even better if that editor makes specific recomendations for plot, character, theme, etc... In the last mo...
Posted by Jeff on Wed, 04 Apr 2007 12:36:00 PST |
The End of the Writing Vacation |
Okay, so it was like six weeks, which was four weeks longer than I planned. I think this is the longest stretch I've gone without actively writing since I was 20. That said, the time off and the stuff...
Posted by Jeff on Sat, 10 Mar 2007 09:06:00 PST |
Field Report 3 from first ever Writing' Vacation - The Sand Pebbles |
There are scant books that I ever have occasion to read more than one time. it's not that I don't like them, but my memory of the written word is usually good enough that I don't have to reread someth...
Posted by Jeff on Sun, 04 Mar 2007 08:45:00 PST |
Field Report 2 from the first ever Writing Vacation |
Okay, so the vacation got off to a rocky start with The Devil Wears Prada by Laura Weisenberger. As the weeks have gone on, I've gone from mild dislike for this book to loathing. At least the story wa...
Posted by Jeff on Wed, 28 Feb 2007 12:07:00 PST |
Field Report from First Ever Scheduled Writing Vacation |
I don't read fiction when I am writing, well, not long form fiction anyway, and I've been actively writing for the last four years. Therefore, I've not dabbled at all in the works of other authors exc...
Posted by Jeff on Fri, 09 Feb 2007 01:41:00 PST |
Progress and the death of Pitch Black LLC/Flashing Swords |
So Flashing Swords is gone, slain, dead& In my entry on short Historical Adventure Fiction I mentioned them as changing to an all Quest Fantasy model. Well, I guess that won't happen now. I don't have...
Posted by Jeff on Tue, 30 Jan 2007 08:36:00 PST |
The New Year and The Old Stories |
So it's 2007 and finally the holidays are officially over. In the intervening weeks between shopping, clumsily wrapping, and giving, I managed to complete a pair of new Union Dues stories. These are, ...
Posted by Jeff on Tue, 09 Jan 2007 08:22:00 PST |
The silent death of short Historical Adventure Fiction |
So Dan Blackston, the editor of the Black Gate group that publishes the wonderful Flashing Swords E-Zine has announced in the forums that they are scaling back to triannual publishing, and cutting bot...
Posted by Jeff on Tue, 19 Dec 2006 06:04:00 PST |
Some thoughts on rejection |
I happened on a post at a very popular message board from a writer who was dealing with depression/rejection. I answered that post with what's pasted below."Who'd you get a rejection from?"(Got one fr...
Posted by Jeff on Fri, 10 Nov 2006 07:20:00 PST |
