Body For Hire
Me ... for something ... I'm not sure what yet ...
Calling All Editors
Congratulations to Jessa Marsh, writer, and editor of Monkeybicycle Online. The good folks at DecomP nominated her Flash "My Motel Week" for Dzanc's Best of the Web 2010. Well done, Jessa, and good luck! Editors, please remember to nominate.
Jewel In Our Crown
Hobart's October Issue is live. Congratulations Molly Gaudry, Andrew Roe, Reynard Seifert, and Kevin Wilson et al.
VIPs on VSF
Check out Kathy Fish's and Joseph Young's collaboration over at Laura Ellen Scott's excellent blog VIPs on VSF. Twenty microfictions that dazzle.
Abstinence
I don't watch TV. Never. I haven't in ten years.
Machete
After receiving several kind and encouraging recent rejections pointing to my "heavyhandedness" I've taken a machete to my work, massacring exposition, internalizations, and lots more. Just blood and guts everywhere. I thought it would be harder. I like story. I like beginnings, middles, and ends. Yet this killing rampage feels surprisingly good. Great actually.
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I used to really HATE IT when Victor went on about how much he enjoyed deleting everything, but I have found that he's right - annoyingly. We can't be afraid to swing that blade and hack off limbs and into torsos; from the wreckage something clean and taut will emerge.
ReplyDeleteGood luck.