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Monthly Archives: December 2020
Goodbye 2020 Sale – All On-Demand Writing Classes $5
It’s the end of the year that has somehow been one of the longest and shortest in human history. To celebrate, the Rambo Academy is finishing up with a massive sale: all on-demand online writing classes are $5.
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Appearance: Read It Again Bookstore, December 17, 2020
I’m pleased to be making a virtual appearance with the awesome Read It Again Bookstore this Thursday! I will be reading a little from Carpe Glitter as well as from the space opera that is coming out in 2021 with … Continue reading
Guest Post: Verity Player’s Fiendish Bean-Dish by C L Spillard
Verity Player’s Fiendish Bean-Dish “Oh, brilliant! What shall we bring?” Verity and her husband Sacha—and any of their family friends—will never have a host cook all alone. This is the dish they brought round to the Meiers’ for the first ‘do’ at … Continue reading
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Fiction Reading: Planet Crabby
This piece of flash fiction originally appeared in Asylum Magazine in 1990 and is the first piece of fiction that I published that was not in a school literary magazine or genre magazine.
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Tagged cowboy poetry, flash fiction, how to write flash fiction, poems with horses, prose poem
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Fiction Reading: Red Boot Blues
This is a short story that is a fairytale mash-up done for the anthology, Upon a Once Time, from Air and Nothingness Press. It combines two Hans Christian Andersen fairy tales, “The Red Shoes” and “The Girl Who Trod on … Continue reading
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Tagged fairy tales, hans christian andersen, hopepunk, online readings
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Story Talk: Story Structure
I don’t believe that the standard form we get told all stories come from is the only one an author can use. In this video, I talk about some alternate plot structures and why I think an author should be … Continue reading
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Tagged how to plot a story, moving from idea to draft, plot structure, story structure
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Useful Gifts for Writers: The 10% Solution by Ken Rand
his is the most useful book on writing I have ever found, and it’s the only one I will actually buy to give to people. I ended up writing the introduction to the 10th anniversary edition, because I know the publisher and, well, I’ll let that introduction tell its own story. The “Patrick” referred to in it is Patrick Swenson, the publisher who owns Fairwood Press. Continue reading
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Tagged 10% solution, best practices for revision, best practices for rewriting, ken rand, revising, rewriting
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Useful Gifts for Writers: Various Kinds of Notebooks
Buying a notebook for a writer? There’s so many to pick from, and you can opt for the one that best suits your recipient’s writerly type.
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Fiction Reading Lonesome Trail
This originally appeared in Sybil’s Garage, Issue number three, Spring 2006. The piece of music referenced is Lucia Hwong’s “The Spell”.
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Tagged flash fiction, how to write flash fiction, prose poem, readings
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