Pushing the envelope
[Writing Prompt] You’re a courier trying to deliver letters and notes to the Hero. They’re basically impossible to find because they’re always on the move, and all you can do is follow their trail of
Golden Age of short fiction?
There was a panel at the recent Science Fiction Worldcon in Reno, where a few notable figures from known short fiction markets discussed how technology changed or will change short fiction. You can re
I am back!
One of my earlier posts was titled “Procrastination is a bitch” … and that is still true. I still haven’t managed to make it my bitch, so here goes another try. Lots has happened in the meantime in
$500,000 vs. $2,000,000
Wow … what a week so far. Let’s recap the 2 major news I want to a adress in this post. 1) Barry Eisler, an NYT bestselling author turns down a $500,000 deal from St. Martin’s Press in order to self
Procrastination is a bitch!
I have a dream! It is nothing as grand as what Martin Luther King Jr. dreamt about when he made that speech nearly 50 years ago … but it is a dream nonetheless. I want to be a writer and I want to g
Flash Fiction – Follow up
Today Chuck Wendigs Flash Fiction challenge ended and here are the results: http://terribleminds.com/ramble/2011/02/25/it-goes-down-smooth-the-shackletons-scotch-flash-fiction-results/ Nearly 30 write
Flash Fiction Challenge
Chuck Wendig over on TerribleMinds.com issued a challenge for authors to write a piece of flash fiction inspired by the discovery of polar explorer Ernest Shackleton’s whiskey, which he left there ove
On writing
So I am trying this blogging thing again. And since I am a writer, I might as well start with writing about … writing. Right now it seems, that there is a bit of a revolution going on in the US publ