Baltimore’s City Paper is running their annual short fiction contest. I knew it was coming up, but I didn’t know precisely when. I finally noticed it, in Wednesday’s edition (which, for whatever reason, I didn’t pick up until Thursday). The stories are due on the fifth. Friday. Guy Fawkes Day. I knew the story IContinue reading “On Embarking Upon a New Story”
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On Story Ideas Rattling Around
When it comes to writing, I like to play with form. I’d point to “The Spindle of Necessity” as perhaps the pinnacle of my “playing with form” — the story is a four-part Socratic dialogue, complete with scholarly introduction (and, had I the room under the word cap, it would have had footnotes!) — butContinue reading “On Story Ideas Rattling Around”
On Writing Fiction at Stupidly-Short Lengths
This morning at Shore Leave I will be on a panel, with Dayton Ward, titled “Writing Fiction at Stupidly Short Lengths.” I described this panel, a few days ago, thusly: Learn about Twitterfics, Drabbles, and Flash Fiction as writers talk about creating stories at super-short lengths that make conventional stories look like War and PeaceContinue reading “On Writing Fiction at Stupidly-Short Lengths”