I submitted my first critique for a story in the Critter’s writing workshop this evening. Critiques are due by Wednesday so I got mine in just under the wire. I think I did a pretty good job overall. For a critique to count for credit, it has to be at least 200 words. Documentaion says…
I received my membership information for the Critters writer’s workshop this morning. Along with it were 3 stories to read and critique. Before I got out of bed this morning I read the shortest one (and the only one that was fantasy, instead of science fiction). I need to write and submit a critique for…
Many months ago, I voiced my opinions on free-verse poetry and complained how it appears more and more like places in THE NEW YORKER and ASIMOV’S SCIENCE FICTION. I like poety hemmed in by rules, rhyme, meter, scansion, and the like. While eating breakfast this morning, I read through the 7 poems in the October/November…
I signed up for the writer’s group just in the nick of time. This afternoon I received my second rejection slip from F&SF in the last 8 days. This time it was for the short-short “Blind Date”. The wording of the rejection was only slightly different than that of “Graveyard Shift”. Instead of “this tale…
I have finally bitten the bullet and joined a writer’s workshop. I researched it a bit and then finally decided to join Critters because it came highly recommended, because it focuses on science fiction, fantasy and horror, because the automation makes it easy to submit stories, and finally, because they have very fair rules for…
I packaged up “Graveyard Shift” (all 103 pages) to send off to ASIMOV’S SCIENCE FICTION, and also packaged up my short short story “Blind Date” (all 8 pages) to send off to FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION. This marks the first time I’ve sent “Blind Date” out since I completed the story back in February. I’ll…
When I got home from work tonight (late because of happy hour), I had a the obvious rejection, the self-addressed stamped envelope that I had sent along with the manuscript of “Graveyard Shift” to F&SF. It looks as though I got John Joseph Adams basic rejection this time, which I suppose could be considred a…
I meant to sit down for an hour and work on “If By Reason of Strength”. Instead, I sat down for nearly an hour an a half and wrote just over 1,000 words and I am very pleased with what I have so far. I hope to make some more progress this week. I’m not…
They say that writing is a lonely business. Well, tonight I’m inviting you in to see what it’s like. I completed the final draft of “Graveyard Shift” tonight, a 20,000 word novella that I have been working on since January. During the evening, I took some pictures of how I work, finishing up a final…
I just completed the proofreading of “Graveyard Shift” and I now have to go through the 106 page manuscript and enter the corrections into the Word document. I cut what I could to trim the wordage a bit. I also made one change to a character based on a good suggestion from Jason. It turns…
I have a plan now for finishing up the proofreading and editing of “Graveyard Shift” in order to get it in the mail and on its way to F&SF Saturday morning: 1. Complete proofreading the second third of the story tonight. (This is now done) 2. Complete the final third of the story tomorrow night.…
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