Negates numerous rejections
I sent out a couple of stories this week, so I haven’t been working on the new novel or re-reading Missing Persons. I’ll have to get on that this weekend so my agent doesn’t finish and then have to wait on me to catch up.
I stumbled across a free manuscript tracking program called Sonar last [...]
Packing up and moving halfway around the world
I seem to have this thing for relocating stories lately.
Last week I took the beginning of a novel and relocated it from the northeast to the southwest. (Aside: even though NE and SW are diametrically opposed on the compass, they’re not as far apart geographically as one might expect. Country locations are interesting. Montreal is [...]
Just when you think you’ve got it all figured out
Okay, so last time I wrote about the difficulties I was having trying to write stories for anthologies when I didn’t have ideas, let alone stories to write. Nothing to say, in other words. Just forcing words down onto the page.
I received a set of guidelines for a (no-entry-fee) contest on Friday. Very nice monetary [...]
I meant to mention this earlier
Peter Straub is going to be on One Life to Live on Monday, the 27th. He’s playing a retired Atlantic City cop by the name of Pete Braust. Filming (which took place a month ago) went so well that he may be invited back to reprise the role.
The show airs on ABC–it’s on here in [...]
Lousy parking
Don’t you hate it when you squeeze your car into an awkward but available parking spot, and then everyone else around you leaves and you come out an hour later and your car is sitting all by itself, cock-eyed, making you look like you were drunk or debilitated when you left it there? That’s what [...]
I like this!
Bev –
[noun]:
A master of storytelling
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I’m lyin’
I started writing a new novel this weekend.
Actually, I picked up an old 45-page fragment of a novel and started working on it again. The segment was originally conceived as a book proposal for an installment in a work-for-hire series that wasn’t picked up. I really liked the idea, and I’ve been thinking about it [...]
Madness, I say. Madness.
I’m not a basketball fan, so this thing called March Madness is something totally alien to me. All it signifies to me is that CSI and Survivor won’t be on tonight. Now if it were hockey, I’d be so there.
Started working on a new short story this morning. Noodled around with some research, plugged a [...]
I watched a movie, and boy are my legs tired
I usually go to the gym on Sunday mornings for about an hour. I spend 40 minutes on the elliptical trainer and 20 minutes on the stationary bike. Yesterday, I noticed this Samuel L. Jackson thriller on TNT, so I watched it out of the corner of my eye while on the trainer and then [...]
The Doldrums
I haven’t written much this week. Two book reviews (Glass Soup by Jonathan Carroll and Terrorist by John Irving) but that’s about it.
Not sure exactly why. I got up at the same time every morning and putzed around at the computer, noodling at several different possible projects without actually accomplishing much of note. I edited [...]
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.
