A little of my stuff
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Posted a new short story in the "Dangerous Thoughts" section. Called "Story of the Fall." It's about 2400 words.
Felt good to write fiction again.
Felt good to write fiction again.
Grandpa -- spent part of the weekend reading your stories. Am really enjoying the site. Thank you for sharing these with us. So much more to read!
Way groovy you rox, thanks ever so much, that was muchos wonderful head vittles
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Neesy
#1 fan (Annie Wilkes cousin) 1st cousin Mom's side
Just bookmarked it now - will report back later, Sir!
I would snap a smart salute, but those days are behind me now (thankfully).
I would snap a smart salute, but those days are behind me now (thankfully).
It looks great! Really good! And I am going to give your chilli recipe a whirl. 
I was on there again today, reading about "the blonde" at the prom.
Neesy
#1 fan (Annie Wilkes cousin) 1st cousin Mom's side
Good work on that blog - and I may borrow that banana bread recipe, too - thanks!
Posted a travelogue, of sorts, complete with a few photos, on Yellowstone in the "Ain't Life Good" section.
I hadn't done anything with the blog for a while. Now that you guys are all so affirming and kind, I'm suddenly seized with a desire to write and post more. So thank you most sincerely.
I hadn't done anything with the blog for a while. Now that you guys are all so affirming and kind, I'm suddenly seized with a desire to write and post more. So thank you most sincerely.
Okay, I have to "reach out," as the popular phrase goes, because I'm mired in fogeydom.
I'm having fun with the blog, sometimes. I might post something that's been around for the last decade or two Abraham Lincoln), or something that I just now wrote (Story of the Fall), or just something that comes to mind and I vomit it into cyberspace (Starship Troopers_).
But in the meantime, I have, unimportantly, the Great Unfinished American Novel and, more importantly, three novellas, one of which is kinda fun (Kurben? Is that right?), one of which is reasonably suspenseful, and the other of which has some good stuff going and a twist at the end.
I'm pondering what to do with the novellas. I'd like to run them in a sequence, but like The Curt Series, it would show to the reader as the most recent up on top. that doesn't strike me as a clean, chronological way to present them. I could make sure the reader knows about the succession by naming them Chapters No., but I don't know that that would be clear enough for the average reader.
And in the meantime, I have Grandma saying, "You wrote these, now make some money from them!" Which we all know, oh, yeah, that's the goal, right? But the reality is a little different. I'd just like people to read them.
Any thoughts?
I'm having fun with the blog, sometimes. I might post something that's been around for the last decade or two Abraham Lincoln), or something that I just now wrote (Story of the Fall), or just something that comes to mind and I vomit it into cyberspace (Starship Troopers_).
But in the meantime, I have, unimportantly, the Great Unfinished American Novel and, more importantly, three novellas, one of which is kinda fun (Kurben? Is that right?), one of which is reasonably suspenseful, and the other of which has some good stuff going and a twist at the end.
I'm pondering what to do with the novellas. I'd like to run them in a sequence, but like The Curt Series, it would show to the reader as the most recent up on top. that doesn't strike me as a clean, chronological way to present them. I could make sure the reader knows about the succession by naming them Chapters No., but I don't know that that would be clear enough for the average reader.
And in the meantime, I have Grandma saying, "You wrote these, now make some money from them!" Which we all know, oh, yeah, that's the goal, right? But the reality is a little different. I'd just like people to read them.
Any thoughts?
So.....
I've decided to "do something." For the (short) novel I wrote, I'm sending out queries to agents. Yeah, I'm in Unknown Writers Psyche Hell. Wish me luck.
I'm looking into self-publishing, e-wise, for the novellas. Once my workload lessens, I'll plumb it more. I have it on semi-good authority (I choose to look at that authority as half full rather than half empty) that that's the best way to go for novellas. We shall see.
I've decided to "do something." For the (short) novel I wrote, I'm sending out queries to agents. Yeah, I'm in Unknown Writers Psyche Hell. Wish me luck.
I'm looking into self-publishing, e-wise, for the novellas. Once my workload lessens, I'll plumb it more. I have it on semi-good authority (I choose to look at that authority as half full rather than half empty) that that's the best way to go for novellas. We shall see.
Remember in Misery when Paul Sheldon puts down the words that are the author's most favorite and most feared: "Then End"? (I don't remember the description exactly, but that's how I remember it.)
About a week and a half ago, I put "The End" to a book that I started about 15 years ago, got stuck with for a while, then finally pushed through. At 105,000 words, more or less, it's my first work of a "real" book length. I'm not pushing it as a finished work, because it's not. I'm just sharing relief for having gotten through it. The first draft, anyway.
Now starts the editing and the Dreaded Query Process. Nothing may come of it. In fact, that's the mathematical probability. But it just feels good to have it done and resolved this much.
About a week and a half ago, I put "The End" to a book that I started about 15 years ago, got stuck with for a while, then finally pushed through. At 105,000 words, more or less, it's my first work of a "real" book length. I'm not pushing it as a finished work, because it's not. I'm just sharing relief for having gotten through it. The first draft, anyway.
Now starts the editing and the Dreaded Query Process. Nothing may come of it. In fact, that's the mathematical probability. But it just feels good to have it done and resolved this much.
Congratulations and best of luck shopping it!
The October issue of Writer's Digest lead story is devoted to 38 agents seeking new writers now!
Thank you for that tip! I went and picked it up. Looks like a great issue.
That'd be great if you got an agent from one of these. But, if not it isn't a waste of your money as far as I'm concerned. WD itself is a wealth of information.