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Reading Slush

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 [...]

Contests? No contest.

By Bev Vincent, on November 17th, 2010

Some of my best successes in submitting short fiction have been by winning no-fee [...]

How far would you go for a critique?

By Bev Vincent, on September 17th, 2010

Lessons learned in the past concerning critique groups, and a new journey with another [...]

The Tangled Web We Weave

By Bev Vincent, on June 17th, 2010

Creating the second draft of a novel can involve delictately altering the original story or it may require radical [...]

Writing About Not Writing

By Carole Lanham, on June 2nd, 2010

June 2 has arrived and I feel like I’ve just stumbled from a pitch-black cave into blinding light. Two weeks ago, I was sitting in the Riviera Maya and had a waiter named Oscar bringing Coronas and fish tacos at the snap of my fingers. One week ago, my son was in ICU [...]

The Anatomy and Creation of a Story Pt. 2

By David Niall Wilson, on November 30th, 2009

This is an ongoing discussion of the process I use to write short stories…not that there is a set process, as it’s different each time. I started this in “Part One” back on my personal blog, and wanted to continue here to mix up the audience as much as possible.

In part one, I discussed the [...]

It's an Old Old Story

By stevensavile, on October 22nd, 2009

There are days, and then there are days, and the last forty-eight
hours would count double in both senses. I’m going to tell you a
story, it’s what I do after all. It’s an old old story (quarter of a
century in this instance, to be precise, but funnily enough the
details are all crystal clear despite the fact [...]

Blind Idiot Lovecraft

By Brian Hodge, on October 9th, 2009

[While Brian will soon be back among us, he is not quite ready to jump back in actively...as placeholders, I will be posting some of his past columns, and since back in 2006 he posted this fictional piece, in the spirit of "storyteller fiction month" - I thought it would be a perfect choice. - [...]

The Truth in Consequences

By Gerard Houarner, on April 4th, 2007

(I apologize for posting this late. I literally forgot Gerard sent it to me because he posted it in the body of an e-mail, and when I got to looking and didn’t see an attached file, I … well, anyway…here it is…sorry it’s late – DNW)

by Gerard Houarner

In an effort to be at say [...]

Cliche Guilt – What If I just Like To Read This Stuff?

By Gerard Houarner, on March 4th, 2007

Gerard Houarner

Early in February, a thread on the Shocklines board exploded for a few hours as the subject apparently touched a nerve among many readers: people were asked to list five storyline cliches that really irritated them. Our fellow unplugged storyteller Jim Moore started the thread in part as research for his own [...]

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