Quote for 9-29-10

The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.


--Toni Morrison

new paths

I've finished a rough draft of a flash mystery story that I hope to sell to a woman's magazine. I also have an idea for a very sweet romantic story, which is something else they publish.

I'd sent them a poem before, the rejection said it wasn't the type of poetry they accept, though the person rejecting me said that the poem was "lovely."

I started looking at the magazine with a more critical eye, to get a feel for the work-- it's not literary, of course-- and I've decided not to be such a snob and write general/popular fiction and to do it for the money which would hopefully fund a future that allows me the freedom to write literary stuff, of course.

Quote for 9-28-10

I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.

--Dilbert's School of Thoughts

Trying to continue to meet those deadlines. Oct 1 is a day after September 30. Yikes. But I'll keep writing, not much else I can do.

Quote for 9-26-10

Some stories are true that never happened.

--Elie Weisel

Quote for 9-25-10

If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There's no way around these two things that I'm aware off, no shortcut.


--Stephen King
from On Writing

Sept 30 around the corner

A few more contests I might enter. Have lots of story drafts to choose from and the two characters I devised when I was at Antioch.

We'll see what happens this week.

Hint Fiction

The anthology will be released November 1, and there are signings to be held in Pasadena, CA and in New York. More details when I get them.

I'm sooooooooooooooo excited to be in an anthology with Joyce Carol Oates!!!

Quote for 9-24-10

Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.

--Orson Scott Card

Quote for 9-22-10

The story arises in the unconscious.

--Dorothea Brande