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Long Time Gone

Hydy — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 18:16:02 +0000

I have not been active on the blog for some months. Life is complicated and my focus has turned in other directions. Click Here for more details on that. In the writing world, I’ve had a few more rejections and made a submission today. The Old Ones was rejected by The Pedestal Magazine on April 29th, 2010. The Albino was rejected by Realms of Fantasy on June 1st, 2010. May 9th, 1999 did not win the L. Ron Hubbard’s Writers of the Future contest this quarter. I submitted Dead Eyes to Daily Bites of Flesh on August 21st, 2010. There are a couple other anthologies I am considering as well, but my focus is more towards nonfiction writing right now, and my career path, so we’ll just have to wait and see what happens.

Six Months Online

Hydy — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:49:51 +0000

In a couple days, this blog will have been live for six months. So, what does everyone think? Do you like it? Do you hate it? Is it fun? Boring? What more could you ask for? What am I missing? Please, leave comments, send me messages, let me know what you think.

In just the past week, May 9th, 1999 was rejected by Strange Horizons; Crow Spirit was rejected by Chiaroscuro; and Dream Child was rejected by Interzone. Yesterday I submitted May 9th, 1999 to Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show. Today I’m mailing out Dream Child to L. Ron Hubbard’s Writers of the Future Contest and The Albino to Black Static.

Plots and plans for a less personal, more community-based readers and writers website are spiraling in my head, waiting to come rushing out onto the web. Thoughts, suggestions, and comments on that are also welcome.

NaNoWriMo Fail

Hydy — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 17:46:11 +0000

I got some interesting story bits and characters. Doa and Tio definitely beg to be written about independently. They will probably be an upcoming Friday Flash piece before they become a full fledged story. But I have failed at the writing of a novel this month. I have failed at making the necessary time to write.

I have succeeded in getting back to my journal writing. I have made some headway in blogging. I have found new markets and submitted stories and received rejections. I liked today’s rejection letter from Abyss & Apex. I nearly have a flash fiction submission ready for The Pedestal’s special issue. I will be sending that out on Tuesday.

Life is crazy, busy and hectic, but I am enjoying it very much. Thoughts once again creeping in about affiliating and book reviews…

Social Networking Platform

Hydy — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 22:36:38 +0000

I’ve been reading and hearing a lot about social networking lately, about building your online platform and getting an audience. I kept thinking things like “it’s too early” “I should have more publishing credits first” and “I don’t have the time.” The truth is, I waste far more time online than I’m willing to admit, and this will at least give me a few productive things to do with that time.

Today I signed up for Facebook and Twitter and linked them together with this page and my Livejournal. I added a link box to my sidebar for these places, too. I’m still building up my profiles on these sites, and deciding what to do, and what not to do. Facebook, especially, I want it to be a “professional link” not full of silly apps and nonsense.

We’ll see how that goes. I am thinking of publishing some flash fiction on my Livejournal, and maybe on this blog as well. I don’t want to do a lot of cross posting, but I imagine some may occur: submissions and rejections on LJ and Twitter; flash fiction on LJ and here. I’m not sure, what do people think? Would it be too much? Or just a way to reach multiple audiences?

More Work

Hydy — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 23:58:27 +0000

Finished reading my first blogging book, made some more invisible changes and a couple visible ones. Readers can now register here and leave comments, but can also still comment just by giving name and email address. I tried to order my navigation links, but that’s apparently not working quite right yet. I tried to take out the search box from my header, to no avail, couldn’t find the right piece of code.

I have been writing 30 minutes of fiction every day this month, and have only missed one day. Sent my manuscripts off to the OAC this morning. Having thoughts of many conventions next year while looking at writing panels at Dragon Con coming up next month. There is so much I want to do, I must make the time to do it. Blogging ideas bouncing madly around my head. Some day I will figure out how to create interesting titles.

Idea

Hydy — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 15:55:05 +0000

Last night, after I’d decided to go to sleep, I got an idea. A blog ring of sorts. So far three connected blogs with a new post every day. One would be called 30 Minutes, where I’d write fiction for 30 minutes a day and just post whatever it was, a scene, a character, a flash, whatever. One would be writing prompts, a sentence or two, and idea, a collection of objects. And the third would be a visual writing prompt, a photo. I had a vague idea of having a fourth blog attached to, to write about writing, editing and publishing, but I’m not sure I’d have daily content for something like that.