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Continue reading →: National Flash Fiction DaySaturday was, apparently, National Flash Fiction Day, at least according to the website. Working definitions appear to be either a maximum of 300 or 500 words for flash fiction and a 100-word maximum for micro. (See, definitions vary. I like the more usual, but hardly universal, definition of 1000 words…
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Continue reading →: Back at the Keyboard
So May worked out well, even if it turned out to be more crowded with non-writing events than I expected, and June has been busy so far. Not even a month into my time as a graduate student, I went to my first academic conference. Between the conference, a tourism…
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Continue reading →: How Did May Turn Out?
Phrased differently, was the Micro-fiction theme successful? Yes, I think it was. To recap, I made the personal demarcation line from Flash to Micro 250 words, although I’ve given thought to a character-based definition (1000 characters) that would still take in nearly all the pieces written in May to fit…
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Continue reading →: And Another Thing…
Okay, maybe not daily exactly, but something that I want to start doing in the second half of May. It’s time to start sending out stories again. Past time, really. I know I’ve hit this note before, but I have a lot of things that should be out looking for…
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Continue reading →: Hire A Copy EditorRemember Van Halen’s “no brown M&Ms” clause? Remember how the media presented it as displaying the self-centered and excess-driven culture of rock stars but how it was actually designed to let the band and its team know when to look for safety issues at a venue? After all, if the…
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Continue reading →: SF Saturday: AD Police: To Protect and Serve, Episode 10I came to AD Police through Bubblegum Crisis, an anime a friend introduced me to in the early 1990s when it was still a recent crossing. Subtitles rather than dubbed. Dubs were pretty rare at the time, I think. AD Police: To Protect and Serve is the fifth of six…
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Continue reading →: Six-Word StoriesWhatever I said or thought when I came up with the theme, and whatever restrictions I’ve placed on things either here or in my head, at some point during the May Micro theme, I’m going to try to write a six-word story. Note the word try in there. If you’re…
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Continue reading →: Holy crap, I’m a Grad student!My first time through university in the early 1990s, it’s safe to say I was an erratic student. If I liked the course, I did well. If I didn’t like it, I did poorly. If I hated it, I did the bare minimum amount of work to pass and no…
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Continue reading →: May Theme: Micro-fiction
I suggested (okay, stated outright) that I was going to return to the idea of each month of 2025 having a writing theme beginning May 1st. That plan calls for a piece of micro-fiction every day in May, May Micro, if you’ll excuse the alliteration, which I’m going to do…
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Continue reading →: Cultural ProgrammingThe cultural programming you’re force fed as a child runs deep. I’ve been an open atheist for several decades, but do you know how many stupid hymns and Christian children’s songs still live rent-free in my head? Sometimes it seems like all of them. Apparently, Aristotle said something to the…
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