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The Year Turns

Hydy — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 00:01:14 +0000

I made 37 submissions in 2009. 29 of them in the final three months of the year, after returning, inspired and renewed from DragonCon in Atlanta. Of the 37 submission, 29 have been rejected. I wrote a lot of new flash fiction this past year, 7 of which were submitted, and most of the rest of which are being posted here, one each Friday. Only two new short stories entered the mix for me, though. This is something that will change in 2010.

I attempted NaNoWriMo, and came up with some good ideas and some interesting characters. I will be developing some of that in the coming year, as well as a handful of stories I started, but never finished. This includes some of the flash pieces, which are really just story ideas given a few moments on paper instead of worked into real stories.

Life is constantly changing and in my struggle to keep up, I have let slide some of the things that are important to me. New things have become important to me, yes, but some of the things I fill my time with are just pointless distractions. Yes, I’m looking at you, Facebook.

2009 was a good year. 2010 will be a fantastic year.

Dragon*Con Post 1

Hydy — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 20:21:53 +0000

The writing panels I attended at Dragon*Con this past weekend are as follows, the lists of authors and editors after each are the official lists from the program, I did not check against who actually showed up, but I think the lists are pretty much correct. I am still trying to organize all my notes from said panels, so there will be more posts coming soon..ish.

1. Write a Story in an Hour

Gary Kim Hayes

2. Storytelling…Is It a Lost Art?

Sandra Angelin Chastain, Katherine Kurtz, James A. Moore, Stacy Hague-Hill, Gene Wolfe

3. Tell It Like It Is!

Sherrilyn Kenyon, Eric Griffin, Peter S. Beagle, Chesya Burke, Cherie Priest, Raven Hart, Gene Wolfe, Tiffany Trent

4. Getting in the Game: Writing for the Gaming Industry

David Harmer, Bill Bridges, Kathleen O’Shea David, Elonka Dunin, Sean Patrick Fannon, Aaron Armand de Orive

5. Frightening Folklore

Christopher Golden, Rosemary Ellen Guiley, Jonathan Maberry, Caitlin Kittredge, Mike Mignola

6. World Building

Peter David, Steve Berman, Chesya Burke, Ann C. Crispin, Christopher Golden, Catherine Asaro, Walter Jon Williams

7. How to Get Rejected

John C. Snider, Ginjer Buchanan, Bill Fawcett, Toni Weisskopf, Stephen H. Segal, Stacy Hague-Hill, Lou Anders

8. The Sacred and The Profane

Elizabeth Donald, Christopher Golden, Scott Nicholson, Cherie Priest, Scott Allie, John Everson, J.F. Lewis, Jackie Kessler

9. Strong Female Protagonists

Chesya Burke, Janny Wurtz, Stacia Kane, Charlaine Harris, Laura Anne Gilman

10. Things I Wish Some Pro Had Told Me

Kevin J. Anderson, Rebecca Moesta

11. Challenges for Today’s Writers

Elizabeth Donald, Christopher Golden, Gary Kim Hayes, Michael Stackpole, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Jennifer St. Giles, S.M. Stirling

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.