Category 5
I finally managed to get back to work on Missing Persons this weekend. I was surprised when I backed up my Saturday work to see how long it had been since I last touched that file. Too long. Longer than necessary, but I was in a rut of finding too many other things to do, [...]
The Seasoning of an Agent
My agent, Michael Psaltis, will be a published author in a couple of weeks. He cowrote a book with his twin brother, Doug, who is a chef. The book is called The Seasoning of a Chef and is coming out from Doubleday Broadway on September 13th.
Filled with rampant egos, cutthroat kitchen politics, and settings ranging [...]
Back on track
I got some work done last night to compensate for my brain freeze yesterday morning. This Inhuman essay had been stumping me. I’d written about 1200 words of a 3000 word piece, but I didn’t feel like I’d decided what to say yet or how to approach the article. All I was doing was putting [...]
Twaddle
This morning, I really did get nothing done. Zilch. Nada. Couldn’t even get to the point where I opened a Word document. I got up at the usual time, got to the computer at the usual time, did the usual e-mail/surfing for fifteen minutes, and then couldn’t figure out what to do. I’m waiting for [...]
I guess I did get some stuff done after all
You can see the final lineup and order for the Damned Nation anthology here. My story “The Garden of Earthly Delights” is second to last.
I was going to say that I had an idle weekend and didn’t accomplish much from a writing perspective, but now that I look back on it, I didn’t do to [...]
SASR redux
I was tempting fate yesterday by talking about thin SASEs containing rejections. I got home from work to find one sitting there waiting for me, and this time it was a rejection from F&SF. The amazing thing, though, was the timeframe. Remember, this was a postal submission and postal response. I sent the story out [...]
Self Addressed Stamped Rejections
Wow — four posts in one week. Must be a record!
I recognize my own SASEs. They have a distinctive look. When I see one among the mail, especially a thin one that looks like it only contains a single sheet of paper, I open it with trepidation, sure it will be another rejection letter to [...]
addendum (mudnedda?)
Each month, Hellnotes runs a short fiction contest where writers respond to one of three story prompts with a 500-1000 word tale. Winner gets published online and $30. Losers (there’s probably a PC term that won’t offend people who don’t win, but it’s almost certainly longer than “losers”) end up with a 500-1000 word story [...]
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I started a short story this morning that I essentially wrote backwards. Not exactly, but I certainly didn’t go about it in my usual linear fashion.
I wrote the first paragraph. Then I wrote the closing line. Next I wrote the paragraph before the closing line and the two or three paragraphs before that.
Then I went [...]
Unplugged
This Wednesday, it’s my turn up at bat at Storytellers Unplugged, where I shall regale all who care to draw up a chair about the vicious downward spiral of revisions.
I finished my new story, “Talking Old Soldier,” this weekend, after numerous rounds of revisions (see above!) and sent it out to AHMM this morning. Such [...]
About
Bev Vincent is the author of The Road to the Dark Tower, the Bram Stoker Award nominated companion to Stephen King's Dark Tower series, and The Stephen King Illustrated Companion, which was nominated for a 2010 Edgar® Award and a 2009 Bram Stoker Award.
His short fiction has appeared in places like Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, From the Borderlands and The Blue Religion. He is a contributing editor with Cemetery Dance magazine and a member of the Storytellers Unplugged blogging community. He also writes book reviews for Onyx Reviews.
