My son, who critiques all my fiction, says, "Ya know… You haven't written any cis het women."
I'm like, "Oh, come on. That's not true! There's… Well… Um… Oh! There's Aless! Remember her? She's the one that dies right away."
Sigh. I guess I know what I #amwriting next.
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Just finished new 2400 word story. Something a bit different than anything I've written before. #amwriting
When people say, "show, don't tell" I always think, "I'm an author — not an artist!" #amwriting
One of my (many) challenges in writing short fiction is that my inclination is to write the first chapter of some larger story rather than a complete short story. I'm currently revising one such story. #amwriting
Ho-hum. Another rejection. Manuscript submitted to another market. #amwriting
Woohoo! Rejected again! #amwriting
Is it really a "trunk story" if you just never got around to submitting it before? #amwriting
Another day, another rejection. #amwriting
submitted a 25,000 word manuscript #amwriting
The boxer puppy licked the drops of water off my legs.
"That's disgusting, dog" I said. And I tore off a piece of my sandwich for him which he consumed with relish. Then he went back to licking my legs, now spreading little bits of cheese and bread with his saliva. #amwriting