Author: Adria Bailton

  • “Weekly” Short Fiction Round-Up #2

    With my goal to catch you up to the short fiction I’ve been reading, here’s the second round-up with ten stories for your reading enjoyment. Fewer of these stories had associated artwork than yesterday’s post. Most of these stories are under 1000 words. Apex Magazine published Super Duper Fly by Maurice Broaddus. This is a 16 minute read…

  • Weekly Short Round-Up

    Until I have published stories, I’m staying on theme of blogging about other published books and stories. I get to read unpublished stories and I can’t wait until those are out in the wild so I can share them with you, too!I began writing short fiction again recently, so I’ve reading short fiction. I read…

  • Reading Reflection January 2021

    I read two books in January. My writing craft book was Save the Cat and my fun-read was The Demon’s Pursuit of Mor. My Storygraph is a little odd, but the mix of the books I read follows the above Moods and Pace. Save the Cat by Blake Snyder was recommended to me when I had the opportunity to…

  • Reading Reflection on 2020

    Blogging Goal: In 2021, I will try to do a monthly summary of books I read via Storygraph. My reading goal for the year 2021 is 36 books. In 2018, I read 50, and in 2019, I read 100. 2020: In 2020, I read somewhere between 30 and 40 books. In general, the “adventure,” “dark,” “informative,” and…

  • Writerly Review of 2020 and onto 2021 Goals

    What I accomplished in 2020NovelI completed my novel, Slipping, at the tail end of 2019. I spent the first three months of 2020 trying to get people to read it for feedback. I chased friends who I thought would be good because they read so much and so fast. What I needed were other authors.…

  • Adria has been writing…

    A little historyI’m one of those people who tells stories. Always. Since I was a child, I told stories of my experiences to relate to other people, and stories of my own devising to entertain other people, and my dolls and stuffed bears. When I learned to write, I wrote many of those stories down, but…

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