Sunday, March 24, 2013
obit. from Pure Slush available
Pure Slush's sixth print anthology is obit., released in March 2013.
The idea is this: an obituary was written by William Henderson.
Other writers contributed stories about the same person, about
different parts of this character's life, etc. They took incidents or
ideas or traits or other characters mentioned in the obituary ... and
sometimes their stories refuted them. Stories could be wholly about the
obit's subject or maybe only in passing.
Writers included in the anthology are Erin Zulkoski, Michael Webb, Sally Reno, Matt Potter, Martha Rand, Susan Tepper, Matt McGee, Jaylee Alde, Maude Larke, Andrew Stancek, Dusty-Anne Rhodes, Gill Hoffs, Joyce Juzwik, Meghan K. Barnes, Mira Desai, Teresa Burns Gunther, Kyle Hemmings, Joanne Jagoda, Gwendolyn Joyce Mintz, Andrew Stancek, Jennifer K. Dick ... and William Henderson.
Go here to purchase: http://www.lulu.com/shop/pure-slush/obit-pure-slush-vol-6/paperback/product-20937474.html
I've been reading
short stories and about the craft of writing. Doing some research but not a whole lot of writing like in Feb. Think I blew a gasket. Several rejections and some publications. A photo was in the final rounds for the cover of a print journal but no cigar. Ah, well.
Thursday, January 31, 2013
Reprieve!
Deadlines extended for two anthologies and one magazine. Yay! 'Cause I am not ready. Still have some submissions to go out today and tomorrow. So it's back to work.
Monday, January 28, 2013
New and cool project
Next year, on the 17th of every month I will have a story in an anthology for that particular month. Same character, but 12 stories about said character. Lots of planning I've got to to-- yeah, on top of everything else. Did I mention I'm writing flash plays. One is out in submission and I'm finishing two more. Hope to get a one-act done to submit to a festival but maybe not. Still I'm loving all this "writing-me-time."
Writing Quote for January 28, 2013
Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia. ~E.L. Doctorow
I'm killing me!
Some anthologies I'm trying to get into (will not have those four pieces in Daily Flash/Pill Hill Press is no more) and some themed magazines. Crazy writing but it feels good (most of the time). Thing is the more you write, the better you get and the better you get, the more honest the work is. Like I needed this story for an anthology of Southern gothic fiction and I didn't have an ending -- which is new to me 'cause I usually don't begin a story until I have the end) but I wrote anyway and the main character did something that I hadn't thought of but it was the most appropriate ending. Anyway the 30, the 31st and the 1st are all deadlines so it's back to the stories.
Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Writing quote for 1-23-2013
Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.
~~ Graham Greene
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