Advice for writers.
Welcome to the final post in my series on short story editors. Thank you for all of your encouraging comments on Twitter and Facebook – I’m so glad you’ve enjoyed this series! Thanks too for all the nice comments you’ve made about this blog. Your compliments make it all worthwhile!…
Welcome to the fourth post in my series on short story editors. Recently an editor-friend of mine shared his editorial selection process on Facebook. Watching it was difficult at first because I hadn’t realised how emotionally draining the process of putting together a short story collection can be for editors…
Welcome to the third post in my series on short story editors. Recently an editor-friend of mine shared his editorial selection process on Facebook. Watching it was difficult at first because I hadn’t realised how emotionally draining the process of putting together a short story collection can be for editors…
Welcome to the second post in my series on short story editors. Recently an editor-friend of mine shared his editorial selection process on Facebook. Watching it was difficult at first because I hadn’t realised how emotionally draining the process of putting together a short story collection can be for editors…
My children asked Hubbie and I the other day, what we’d like to be when we ‘grow up’. After clarification, they rephrased their question to mean ‘more grown up’. For Hubbie, his goal was to focus on his photography. (It is awesome.) For me, it was to put together an…
Lots of people have been talking with me lately about social media. Probably something to do with all the courses I’m running here and there on the subject (see my Event Schedule)! I love social media, it nullifies the existential loneliness I’d otherwise feel sitting alone at my computer all…
This month, I’m interviewing editors of short story collections – both in anthology and magazine format – about the process of selecting and publishing short stories. Those interviews will feature here shortly. In the meantime, I wanted to ask you about your writing process. In particular… when do you feel…
