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Writing Advice and Feedback #4
How to get or give good feedback I have gotten absolutely horrendous feedback on my work. Often it’s the format rather than the form. My goal in today’s post is to give a few “what not to do when giving feedback” and also give some tips on how to get good feedback. Tips I probably…
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Quarter 1 of 2023 Reading Reflection
Brilliant! I have read fifteen (15) books this year so far. It puts me 63% of the way towards my goal of 24 books read. I’d chosen 24 books because I didn’t want to tempt another reading slump by setting goals too high despite a strong end to my 2022 reading year. A lesson I…
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Short Fiction Round-Up #73
In March, I suggested eighteen (18) stories. I took the last week of March off from story suggestions due to various and sundry life stuff. Nothing major. Just enough to keep me from getting stories out via social media. I also removed my personal Facebook page which also removed my ability to post to my…
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“Submerged” audio reprint
Subscribe to Manawalker Flash Fiction Podcast I’m thrilled to announce that my flash fiction, “Submerged,” will be published at Manawaker Studio’s Flash Fiction Podcast. Visit their website and subscribe at your favorite podcast app!I’m so excited for many reasons. This is my first reprint sale AND it’s my first audio production of one of my…
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Writing Advice and Feedback #3
“You could be writing…” I find the type of advice and self-flagellation about doing things when “you could be writing” to be toxic and often, untrue. If you aren’t writing, could you really be? If I feel like writing, I am unless there is something more important or pressing to be doing. That’s probably because…
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Short Fiction Round-Up #72
In February, I suggested nineteen (19) short stories for readers to check out. If you missed them on Twitter, Mastodon, Facebook, or Tumblr, here they are in one list. This is not the order I posted them in. This groups magazines together. L’Alchimista by N.K. Jemison was published by Escape Pod in 2006. Listen or read…
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Writing Advice and Feedback #2
It’s feedback time! The title and topic of this series is Writing Advice and Feedback and I haven’t talked about feedback yet. So, here we go! Today, I’m going to talk about receiving feedback. A later blogpost will talk about giving it. The best advice about receiving and using feedback is the same as for…
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Short Fiction Round-Up #71
In January, I suggested twenty-two (22) short stories by other authors for readers on my various social media. Every weekday at 8:00 am on Twitter, Facebook, Mastodon, and Tumblr I post these links (see connected social media on sidebar for links). I do this because if you like what I like to read, though I’m…
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Writing Advice and Feedback #1
What is this? For a couple of years now, I’ve been threatening one of my writing groups to write blog posts about writing advice and feedback. I get a little cranky on these topics. They say, “Do it!” and then I never do. Kermit Do It GIFfrom Kermit GIFs That is about to change. More…
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Reading Reflection 2022
2022 Reading Reflection You can see by my Goodreads banner that I did manage to make my 2022 reading goal – 18 of 15 books! If you read my 2022 update about 2021, you’ll know that this is actually quite an improvement over last year. I had an amazing reading year in 2019 with 105…