Fiction Writer's Thread

[trappedslider]

I'm sorry. I know that feeling too.

like i know i should do a rewrite,but i don't wanna

 

[Reynard]

::ARISE::

So re-reading A Wizard of Earthsea -- being inspirations and foundational for my own first novel -- has me hankering to get back to my long stalled sequel.

 

[BookTenTiger]

::ARISE::

So re-reading A Wizard of Earthsea -- being inspirations and foundational for my own first novel -- has me hankering to get back to my long stalled sequel.

Yeah! Write it!

For the last two years I've been getting back into short fiction writing with the goal of getting one story published in a literary magazine before I turn 40 this month.

Well I wound up getting 5 published and 6 accepted!

It's been very encouraging and gratifying. I made a website to collect my work together as well:

BreakstoneLit - Written Work

I have always been a writer; my parents still have a book I "wrote" as a 3-year-old (a thrilling tale of a mud monster), and I wrote stories throughout school and college. Over the last few years I've worked on publishing my stories in literary magazines. These are the results. It's miraculous to

www.breakstonelit.com

This summer I'm on break (I'm an elementary school teacher) and I've been trying to write for a few hours every day. I'm working on a short story now about a family that has a world tree growing in their backyard, but it's rotten through and has to be cut down.

 

[Reynard]

Yeah! Write it!

For the last two years I've been getting back into short fiction writing with the goal of getting one story published in a literary magazine before I turn 40 this month.

Well I wound up getting 5 published and 6 accepted!

It's been very encouraging and gratifying. I made a website to collect my work together as well:

BreakstoneLit - Written Work

I have always been a writer; my parents still have a book I "wrote" as a 3-year-old (a thrilling tale of a mud monster), and I wrote stories throughout school and college. Over the last few years I've worked on publishing my stories in literary magazines. These are the results. It's miraculous to

www.breakstonelit.com

This summer I'm on break (I'm an elementary school teacher) and I've been trying to write for a few hours every day. I'm working on a short story now about a family that has a world tree growing in their backyard, but it's rotten through and has to be cut down.

That's great. COngrats!

I need to get a blog (or maybe substack?) up and running again. I had one for years but then had to go back to school in my late 40s and it ate everything: time, creativity, energy. I let the blog lapse and it is all gone (and the bots want way too much for my domain back).

 

[dragoner]

I did a picture of a world tree 20+ years ago.

I have a short story, could easily be expanded into a novel, on my dtrpg store, I have thought of writing more.

 

[trappedslider]

I did a picture of a world tree 20+ years ago.

I have a short story, could easily be expanded into a novel, on my dtrpg store, I have thought of writing more.

I expanded my short story into a novella but I haven't given it the second pass over to fix the issues my beta reader found

 

[dragoner]

I expanded my short story into a novella but I haven't given it the second pass over to fix the issues my beta reader found

I have some four star ratings, like a hundred downloads, I feel like I should write other short stories until one becomes a hit.

 

[BookTenTiger]

I have some four star ratings, like a hundred downloads, I feel like I should write other short stories until one becomes a hit.

Writing more is always the right thing to do!

Since I started tracking submissions in October of 2023, I have submitted stories to literary magazines 123 times, received 66 rejections and 6 acceptances. 8 stories I've sent out have yet to be accepted anywhere.

 

[dragoner]

Writing more is always the right thing to do!

Since I started tracking submissions in October of 2023, I have submitted stories to literary magazines 123 times, received 66 rejections and 6 acceptances. 8 stories I've sent out have yet to be accepted anywhere.

You are right, that is what I should be doing. I have heard it is like an addiction, and I think I could feel the pull maybe.

 

[Autumnal]

Where are the GenX BookTubers?

Criminolly
Michael K. Vaughn
Speculative Reader - this man will do terrible things to your TBR pile
Randy Rsy

Maybe late Boomers:
Roy Reads Anything
Another Bibliophile Reads

Worthwhile young punks:
Michael Wertenberg
Reading from the Depths - the only horror fan Buddhist monk I follow regularly
Willow Talks Books

Uncertain Age:
SciFiScavenger
Bookpilled
Wheel of Genre - currently reading every story in The Weird anthology

For everybody, a writing exercise recommended by Richard Kadrey, Gene Wolfe, and others of much ilk:

Take a story, or a chapter of a book, that you really like, that makes you think “I want to write like that”. Transcribe it in whatever method you usually write - longhand, favorite word processor, whatever.

The point of this is to learn how it feels to write like that - the way your hands move, what the output looks like on paper or screen, and so on. This will help you evaluate your own work in progress, since you have the physical sensations of a style you seek to create in in memory.

I endorse it; it’s helped me.