I’ve been toying with the idea for a while… this is a writing blog, mostly… of putting up samples of my short stories. Of course, I don’t want to post the ones that are totally brill and possibly publishable, right? So I dug through my older archives and found a couple short weird crazy odd things that I don’t totally dislike, but which are not publishable. So it’s like “the best of my worst writing”. Is that a good thing? Er, sure.
I avoided vehicular manslaughter today–okay, it would have been justified homicide–multiple justified homicide–don’t drive through Hy-Vee’s parking lot–ever–because people in little mopeds are only using gravity, and the people who work there actually hold conferences in the middle of the crosswalk. And even when they’ve crossed once, they’ll dart back in front of you. And stop. Were they trying to save the lives of baby ducklings??? Or, like electrons, do they just circulate a fixed point, until someone runs them down? Why don’t more people die in the grocery store parking lot?
Need to find out how to write a query letter, and to whom. What trouble.
night,
dawn
I really question whether posting work on the web disqualifies it for publication. What are the chances of placing a story in a paying publication anyway? Would you not post something in favor of publishing it in a regional rag with a readership of six (including the editor’s parents) or is it not better to put it out there on cyberspace, where a potential audience of thousands/millions could have access to it?
After over 20 years of playing the game, I no longer submit work to publications, my blog has become the exclusive venue for my fiction and I’ve never been happier. There have been hundreds of downloads of my new novel, readers all over the world…
To all the editors and agents who wouldn’t give SO DARK THE NIGHT the time of day…KISS MY ASS.