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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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2003-06-25 3:38 PM CLARION: Richard is Nifty I know it has been awhile since I updated, but things have been hectic around here.
So, things that have happened: Richard Paul Russo is here and teaching, I had a story critiqued, and I had my conference. Richard is a great guy. I really like him a lot as an instructor. He's extremely accessible, very human and often modest, and also very, very honest. He's managed to not softball people but also avoided, in my experience, being overly harsh. I've gotten some good advice from him. Plus, he told me in the conference he liked my Bat Boy story, so obviously he rocks. Seriously though I think he's iunsightful and has been most helpful when discussing the business end of amtters as well. It has been a good week so far. Even if I hated the story I had critiqued. Well, that's not accurate. It was a really hard story to write for me; I keep saying it's a story that didn't want to be written. And I think that difficulty showed. However, I believe there are some good ideas there and that in revision I can turn it into a pretty darn good stort. So yay! And hey, it had my first ever female protagonist. I coudn't stand her, but she was there. Woo hoo! I'm getting tired and I'm getting cranky I noticed. I wasn't sure I believed the myth before but I do now: Week for is Going to Suck. Everyone is tired, some are irritable (me particularly), and I think we all know each other well enough now not to feel any hesitation in showing those things. As Ryan said in the best stage whisper ever: Cracks are forming. And yet we still all get along well. No scandals, no dead bodies. I think we, as a group, will make it through this. I hope. :) Tomorrow I get to see if the cat blows me off again. I miss my cats. And my ferrets. And my husband. And my ideas. I have nothing to write about and it's driving me crazy. I think I'm going to take Jonathan's advice and throw a blanket over my window (I can almost never write during the day) and write anything that comes to mind. It has to be better than waiting desperately for something to write about. Anyway, so far it has been a good week. Here's hoping it continues! Bye for now, all! Read/Post Comments (2) Previous Entry :: Next Entry Back to Top |
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