Milestone! First Published Short Story!
So! Did you catch that? I just published a short story (technically, at just over 10,000 words, some people would call ‘Because the Desert is a Great, Broad Beast of Memory’ a novelette – but I’m not sure I’m ready to consider myself quite that fancy). Now, you might be asking: Published? Where? Answer: Here. On my blog. This really does count as publishing. Merriam-Webster defines ‘publish’ as “to disseminate to the public” (and it defines ‘disseminate’ as “to spread…