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Milestone! First Published Short Story!

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…

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Revision Example: Targeted, Mid-drafting

Revision Example: Targeted, Mid-drafting

Okay, I said last writing post that I like revisions. And recently I experienced a good example of the importance (for me*) of Targeted, Mid-drafting Revisions.  There are lots of kinds of revisions, and I mostly adore them all (what’s not to love about effective problem-solving?), and so I thought it would be nice to share an example of this particular kind. * Important disclaimer: I don’t want to try to give any instruction about when a writer should or…

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A Wish-I-Could-Post-About-Writing Post

A Wish-I-Could-Post-About-Writing Post

Okay.  So.  I’d really like to write a blog post on something to do with writing and/or my stories.  But it seems…like it would be inappropriate at this particular juncture?  I’ve got nothing published so far, except for half of my first Serial-Steam-of-Consciousness Story (SSCS; on this blog).  And realistically it’s going to be years before any of my work is noticeably more available than that. (Okay, to be perfectly accurate: In high school, 2 or 3 of my poems…

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Serial Stream-of-Consciousness Stories (SSCS’s)

Serial Stream-of-Consciousness Stories (SSCS’s)

My Serial Stream-of-Consciousness Stories (SSCS’s) are a series of stories that I started in 2018 as something to dabble with, but that I picked up in earnest in 2019. I’m a very slow writer, and at the end of 2018 I had just finished the first draft of my 2nd book. That meant that 2019 was staring down the barrel of a lot of revision time. I like revising, but I’m very slow at that too, and my first drafts…

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