write fearlessly, break the rules
I've been a little frustrated recently with this whole writing thing. Too many rejections. Weird feedback. Not feeling that I've grown enough or have been as "successful" as I think I should be. My own unrealistic expectations often make it easy for Imposter Syndrome to raise its ugly head. So, I decided to take a... Continue Reading →
If you haven't been following along, I often participate in The Writer's Workout's prompted fiction contest The Writer's Games. It's a marathon--five consecutive weekends where contestants have 72 hours to write a piece of fiction ranging from 1000 to 6000 words, inspired by a set of prompts. It's a lot of fun and a hell... Continue Reading →
I'm excited to announce this new anthology: Mosaic, from TL;DR Press. For the past three years, the good folks at TL;DR Press do a very fun flash fiction contest called the 1K WordHerd, and have published a charity anthology featuring the top 25 stories from the competition. I'm pretty pleased to say, that for the... Continue Reading →
I'm excited to announce that I won third place with my story "Waiting in the Everafter" in Writers' Playground's Short Fiction competition. This is a fun contest where each participant has 10 days to write a short story (up to 3,000 words) using their list of prompts. They give us a list of 5 characters... Continue Reading →
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