Our theme this month was "love."  I worked from 12:45 PM to 4:30 AM, so about 13 hours 45 minutes, allowing for lunch and supper breaks.  I wrote 12 poems on Tuesday, and another 8 spread through the week.  Series prompts often run longer and stack less, so it spreads out the writing.  In addition to the epics there were a bunch of long and medium- ( Read more... )

haikujaguar just posted the first installment of " Earthrise." I've read an earlier version of this, and it's a lovely story. Romance, intrigue, space opera ... a lot of cool stuff that the mainstream publishers aren't much interested in. For everything else, there's crowdfunding. I've wanted to be able to share this with folks, for years, and now I can. ( Read more... )

hullo crowdfunding! I'd like to boost the signal on my own project, if it's all right.

i'm offering commissions for 3k to 5k word short stories at a flat rate. it's request specific-- the genre, type, etc., is chosen by the person making the commission-- and is pay on delivery. on the post linked there are links to samples to show my writing ability, and ( Read more... )

Romance Writers Association has officially come out as homophobic and discriminatory, banning same-sex romances from their contest.  Okay, anyone who makes a contest can make up the rules for it.  But it's more than a little counterproductive for a genre  based organization to cut out part of its own content, just because it makes some people " ( Read more... )

EMG-Zine: This free, monthly e-zine for artists and writers of fantasy and science fiction has been funded through December 2012! We've also raised enough to cover several webpage improvements! As a big, giant thank you, I am offering a free PDF download of our first anthology: http://emg ( Read more... )

See our latest list of updates, covering new stories, poetry and art for the past 6 weeks: http://torn-world.livejournal.com/88035.html

Our October Muse Fusion will be Oct 14-17; join in then with prompts and ideas for our creative team!

Starting now, the Poetry Fishbowl is open! I will be checking my blog periodically throughout the day. When people make suggestions, I'll pick some and weave them together into a poem ... and then another ... and so on. I'm hoping to get a lot of ideas and a lot of poems.

Feed the Fish!Now's your chance to participate in the creative process by ( Read more... )