addendum (mudnedda?)
Posted on | August 16, 2005 | 3 Comments
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 to market elsewhere.
I’ve decided to try to write a story each month. I find writing to this length helps me look critically at each word and improves my editing skills. If a story is accepted, great! If not, I’ll publish it on my web page. (I use that word advisedly. By posting a story on a web page, I am exercising my first world publication rights.
The first story, from July, is available here.
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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.
August 16th, 2005 @ 10:37 am
I was thinking of doing the same thing, just to get into the rhythm and habit of it.
August 16th, 2005 @ 4:16 pm
Politically correct terminology for Loser:
Victory Challenged Individual.
August 16th, 2005 @ 4:53 pm
Yep, just as I thought — longer. All PC expressions are longer. Not for the word-conscious like me!