Fall Forward / Spring Back
I know, I’m messing with you with the title. Screwing with the mnemonic. I’d forgotten that this was time change weekend here in the U.S. An extra hour to do with whatever you want this weekend. Spend it wisely.
We received two automated phone calls from the local emergency measures organization, one warning about possible tornados [...]
Cool as a cucumber
It’s unseasonably warm today. It was in the high seventies when we went to breakfast this morning and it’s over eighty, now, although it’s also raining. The snow that fell in Colorado is headed our way in the form of heavy rain, adding to our already soggy October.
I watched Law & Order: SVU last night, [...]
Repeats
Wrote nearly 700 words of the beginning of Chapter 2 this morning. Progress is a little slow at the moment as I attempt to figure out how to dovetail this new beginning into the existing first draft. I’m coming at it from a different direction but I ultimately sort of have to end up at [...]
There are no cows in space
I’m getting back to the novel after being distracted by other things. I did another intensive pass through Chapter 1 this morning, taking my agent’s comments into consideration, and now I’m ready to charge forward with Chapter 2. At this rate, I should be done in a year! I hope to pick up the pace [...]
Who are you supposed to be?
Spent the weekend in Galveston attending my wife’s 30th high school reunion. I tagged along and enjoyed the wonderful weather. Went to a couple of the events, but I knew no one so I was able to duck out and let her enjoy catching up again with her old school friends. We stayed on the [...]
On the shelf
Watching Randall do a faceplant on the gameboard on Survivor last night was a bit scary. The fact that most of the other contestants were blindfolded added to the situation. The second time he went out was even worse than the first, with that thousand-mile stare in his eyes. My wife, a nurse, diagnosed him [...]
I Predict…
…that The Mentalist will be a rerun tonight. CSI, too. And that Survivor will be awesome. The most scared Jeff Probst has been in 19 years. With Fringe pre-empted, that thins out the evening nicely.
We had a torrential rainstorm this morning, heralding the arrival of another cold front. This one is serious — temps down [...]
Of all the gin joints
Just upgraded to WordPress 2.8.5. I love this one-click upgrade option.
I can’t hear the name Rick without thinking of Casablanca. I’m not the kind of person who does “favorite films” or lists of that sort (I come down with a mental paralysis whenever I’m asked for my favorite five or ten of anything) but if [...]
Being There
I like markets that e-mail back to confirm that they’ve received your story and that it is under consideration. I’ve had a couple lately that have done a very good job of keeping me up to date, even if the end result of them was a somewhat baffling rejection letter from a team of readers [...]
Drama Can Happen When People Know Things
I completed, revised, polished, proofed, and fretted over the new short story this weekend and decided to submit it this morning. It came in at exactly 900 words, right smack in the middle of the market’s range. Constructing the story was interesting. I knew the opening line, the ending paragraph, and the essential framework of [...]
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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.
