While Waiting to be Published
While Waiting to be Published
The Year of A Working Writer (2011)
Number of Works Written: 45 short stories, 11 novellas (Some will be revised into
novels.)
Total Number of Works Sent out: 59
Number of Stories Sent Out To Pasture, Unpublished in the Current Marketplace: 0
(2 are getting very close to this point.)
Number of Publishers Sent to: 103
NaNoWriMo And Remembering Anne McCaffrey
November is almost over. I’ve been writing continuously for the past 3 days, at least 75 manuscript pages. I ran through an entire fancy ballpoint pen gel ink cartridge. My hand and
arm are still tired today even though I’ve finished writing. This year’s National Novel Writing Month novel is done, a mix of handwritten, computer typed and typewritten pages (on the Hermes
Rocket seafoam green typewriter.) It was pleasant to do nothing but write (with meal breaks) and it is good to get the story laid out.
This year’s novel started with ...
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Preparing for Halloween
Last night I went to a charming presentation
on local ghost stories. It took place in a local theater, included a tour of the theater’s back stage, and had many wonderful photos of local landmarks and graveyards. The graveyards were not simply set ...
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on local ghost stories. It took place in a local theater, included a tour of the theater’s back stage, and had many wonderful photos of local landmarks and graveyards. The graveyards were not simply set ...
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Writers of the Future
This post is down for renovation. All of the
information it contained can be found by Google. ...
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Story 37: The Novella
I wrote a 106 page novella this week. At the start of this week it did not exist.
Monday it was a 6-page short story titled “Story 37”, one I revised and sent
out to a publisher by Friday. I intended to write “Story 38” and perhaps “Story 39” the same week: I already knew what they were going to be. (In the sense that their two
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The 37th Story
I’ve just finished the 37th story in my 74 Stories Project: I am now halfway through the
project of following Ray Bradbury’s advice to write, finish, and send out 1 short story a week. (This was in the age of typewriters, so some of that week would have been devoted to
the mechanics of re-typing the entire manuscript in order to make corrections.) I can finish 2 short stories a week ...
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My Dreams Are u/ l,Jr"^, \.,rL -er b
I got a new scanner with OCR. My dreams of simply putting notebook pages down on the glass and
having workable first drafts to start from were dashed when a neatly printed list came out as this:
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Apple Picking
Not the famous Frost poem but my weekend.
I should have brought my camera: I spent a perfect New England Fall day (warm in the sun but cool enough for a sweater) with a milk-glass blue sky picking apples and raspberries
(not very many) at a farm next to a craft fair in rural New Hampshire. There was aisle upon aisle of apple trees thick with fruit, a
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Harold Lloyd Typecast
Read post here.
(My scanner died the day after writing this entry.)
-Lisa Shapter
Read "No Woman, No Plaything" in Kaleidotrope
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