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Ramblings on Writing Reviews, Rants, and Observations on SF/F/H I am a thirty-something speculative fiction writer. More importantly to this blog, I am a reader of science fiction, horror, and science fiction. Recently it came to my attention that there are very few places reviewing short stories in the genres that I love. I also had the epiphany that I had not been reading enough of these stories. So, an idea was born to address both of these issues. So, starting in September 2012, this silly little blog of mine that has more or less been gathering dust will be dedicated to looking at and reviewing short form works published both in print magazines and in on-line formats. Reviews will be posted at least once a month, hopefully more, and stories will be selected completely at my whim. However, if you have read something amazing, thought-provoking, or interesting, please feel free to drop me a recommendation. Because a big part of the point of this exercise is to improve my own writing by looking at people doing it successfully, I will only be selecting stories to look at from professional or semi-professional markets. Please note, however, because a big part of the point of this exercise is to improve my own writing by looking at people doing it successfully, I will only be selecting stories to look at from professional or semi-professional markets. I intend to write honest, and hopefully interesting, reviews to let people know more about the wide variety of fantastic (both in subject and quality) stories out there. There will be no personal attacks on authors and no excoriating hatchet jobs. There is nothing to be learned from reviewing truly bad work and nothing to be gained by being mean. I will not do it and, should I be so lucky as to get readers and commentators, I would ask that they not do so either. Be respectful and everyone gets to have a more interesting conversation. What I will do is to give my honest and reasoned reactions to stories and try to determine why or why not particular elements worked. I will try to acknowledge my personal biases and to become more open-minded about those things that are not in the realm of my personal preference. Also, because this is my blog and I can, there may be occasional entries on my own writing process, things I find interesting, or whatever else I feel inclined to add. This may all crash and burn spectacularly, but it's going to be a heck of a lot of fun in the meantime. |
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2003-06-11 11:11 PM CLARION: No Story for Me So, I’ve written 266 words of a new story. This is in addition to 261 words of a different partial idea that isn’t going anywhere. That’s pretty much the entirety of what I’ve accomplished writing-wise. Still, those 266 words are on a story idea I’ve tried doing before that’s never come out right but refuses to die. I think I may have gotten it right this time. We’ll see.
As far as critiquing goes I think it’s still going very well. It’s weird that I should be saying this after only a few days, but really it makes sense. Time is so compressed here. It feels like I’ve been here for months already. Others have commented about having the same feeling. I really like working with Howard. I think he’s a very bright, very expressive fellow, and he’s had a lot to offer in the way of advice and general writing wisdom. It looks like the death story, “Who Comes For Thee”, will go up for critique tomorrow. I’m a little nervous because this is a story I have a lot of emotional investment in, but I’m also excited because if they can help me make it better than I really want that. Plus, I think that Howard may be able to help with a few issues in it. I hope so anyway. I’ll be clutching some stuffed animal desperately regardless. We did another game last night. I think that it’s a great sort of stress reliever for us to have a break time when everyone can get together and be silly. I hope it continues and that people enjoy it. Tomorrow Stephanie and I are going to pick up a gift for Howard. I sort of nominated myself for the gift committee by being the one worrying about it. I’ll have to nominate someone to deal with it next week or I’m going to get stuck doing all of them. Sigh…I hate being obsessive-compulsive sometimes. Really though this is just a great experience. The people are wonderful, I’m learning a lot, having fun. I miss Brian. I really, really miss him. Anyway, I should get back to writing. 266 words does not make a story. In fact, according to Howard you can’t tell a story in less than 3000 words. I think he may be right, in which case I’m in a lot of trouble. Bye, all! Read/Post Comments (3) Previous Entry :: Next Entry Back to Top |
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