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By Bev Vincent, on July 17th, 2011
I’ve been going to writing conventions for a decade. I attended one local writers guild convention in the late 1990s (Joe R. Lansdale was a guest, which was a big draw). Then I resumed my long-fallow interest in writing and I wanted to start networking with other writers. My first big convention was the World [...]
By Bev Vincent, on May 17th, 2011
I’ve never been in the position of having to read through a slush pile to pick out publication worthy short stories. However, as one of the judges of a short fiction contest, I feel like I’ve been through a similar experience. The contest had on the order of 150 submissions. In the first round, we [...]
By Bev Vincent, on April 17th, 2011
Though my field of expertise is in chemistry, I hold a minor in math. I’m not sure that there has ever been a study to confirm or refute this, but I maintain a strange calculus: one acceptance letter is equal to any number of rejections. That is to say, an acceptance wipes the slate clean. [...]
By Bev Vincent, on March 17th, 2011
There are probably still coaches out there who tell athletes to work through the pain after they suffer an injury or come up with a charley horse. This philosophy comes complete with all sorts of pleasant little slogans. Bite the bullet, for example. Tough it out and things will be better. The philosophy is not universally [...]
By wayneallensallee, on February 28th, 2011
Sorry. Busy looking at my screen saver of Michelle Rodriguez. After three minutes of me in deep thought, the screen will revert back to a shot of her sitting in some sort of egg-type chair. And it almost happened again. I switched over to a photo of the Loop in the early 50s, [...]
By Bev Vincent, on February 17th, 2011
Since I just finished doing my taxes, and I’ve seen more than the usual number of questions from writers who are wondering about how to handle writing income and what can be legitimately deducted, I thought I would dredge up and revamp my essay on the subject from five years ago.
I have a day job [...]
By Mort Castle, on February 8th, 2011
We writers can’t afford “single use” anything. We try to get maximum multi-usage our of the research we do, the Ipads we buy, the stories, articles, poems, we write and even the wet cocktail napkin profundities we scribble while clarifying our thought with Ketel One.
The following originally appeared here at Storytellers Unplugged, June 8, 2008:
We [...]
By Bev Vincent, on January 17th, 2011
Every now and then, Jeopardy has a category called “Potpourri” that is filled with questions (or answers) that don’t fit into any other category. I think this is going to be that kind of entry. I don’t know what to call it and I don’t really know what it’s going to be about.
I’m in one [...]
By Bev Vincent, on December 17th, 2010
Let me start this month’s essay with an anecdote.
Everyone knows Elton John, right? The Rocket Man. He rose to fame in America in the early 1970s after a successful appearance at the Troubadour Club in Los Angeles. He churned out hit album after hit album during the seventies and eighties, and continued to chart singles [...]
By Bev Vincent, on October 17th, 2010
An old dog contemplates trying out a new trick: using a new program for working on a [...]
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