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Is Anybody Out There?

By Bev Vincent, on August 17th, 2011

NECon has come and gone for another year. It was a mix of the old and the new. Old faces and new. Familiar activities and new ones. Similar programming topics and contemporary ones. One thing I noticed with most of the panels—and I’ve observed this at other conventions as well—is that, for the most part, [...]

There are cons...and then there's NECon

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 [...]

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 [...]

Ch-ch-ch-changes

By Bev Vincent, on October 17th, 2010

An old dog contemplates trying out a new trick: using a new program for working on a [...]

Give It a Lace Napkin and Two Lumps of Sugar and Invite It to Visit Often

By Carole Lanham, on October 2nd, 2010

Ideas Shmideas. People often ask writers where their Ideas come from as though Ideas are the genesis of all great writing. You must start with a good idea, that much I can agree with, but most of us start with dozens and dozens and that’s where things can get tricky. Ideas are the least important [...]

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 [...]

Why digital publishing didn't catch on 10 years ago--and why it might now.

By Bev Vincent, on August 17th, 2010

Ten years ago, publishers and agents thought digital publishing was going to take over the industry. It didn’t, but the advent of inexpensive book readers means that the digital format stands a better chance of succeeding this time [...]

Auto Draft

By David Niall Wilson, on July 31st, 2010

One of the most popular subjects among authors and those who study authors is that of influences. It is a natural trait of those who teach writing, and those who study writing, to want to know cause and effect – to see if there is a combination of outside events and internal decisions behind the [...]

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 [...]

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