Okay, so I probably should have gone the arcane binary format "doc" instead of (once again) diving into RTF. This is the first time I went with purpose, and OMFG. Just. Dude. So. "Standard Manuscript Format".

I made this:

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The first part of my serial Credencium is up at The Edge of Propinquity: New Horizons like a Crack on the Head.

Music was thumping somewhere far away, and voices. Loud. Joshua opened his eyes, and looked around the small room, trying to remember how he'd gotten there. He was on a couch, some folding futon number, with a girl next to him, and his ( Read more... )

Here is my grovel-post for failing to submit 10 times during the month of October. Good things happened, bad things happened, and I failed. I prophesied that would be the case, really, for overdoing it so spectacularly in September. That's me--slow and steady was never my strong suit. Mad props to all those who made it through. @mercedesmy @ ( Read more... )

Random fun with the internet--new site analyzes your writing (for shits and giggles?) and figures out which famous author you write like.

• When the Earth and Sea Swapped Places ~ Douglas Adams (I've got stuff I'd compare to his style, but this isn't one of those)
• Pockmarked Cement ~ Margaret Mitchell
• The Lion and the Mouse ~ L Frank Baum (well, I did ( Read more... )

a lot of fiction, some good, some bad, a lot just bad or unfinished. Have also been doing #10bythen submission challenge. And...stuff. Not much to say. Hmm. Have #zombierotica coming out in Rigor Amortis Oct 1. And am in M-BRANE SF 21 (also out in October). Working with an artist to turn the #zombierotica into a graphic short for smut peddler (have ( Read more... )

One by one, they took the bait; his torrent flared, spreading far and wide, a distributed disease of computation. Cancer be damned, the aliens could wait--more calculations than he could be bothered to estimate were at his command for one day. Chaos was his to rule. He would have tomorrow's lottery numbers!

Over To You ~ Mike Carey Writing Competition
Shortlist: Steven Lugo, Kaolin Imago Fire, Leila Eadie, Hal Friesen

Mike's thoughts on the entires:

"The entries were all of a very high standard. I was really impressed both with the way the writers managed to maintain the tone and atmosphere of the opening section and with the ingenious weaving ( Read more... )

I'm in this! :D RT @crossedgenres: New blog post: Issue 18: Eastern is released! http://bit.ly/9MoXos

Just to have somewhere to put it. And because, well, it's only polite to share. And because ( Read more... )

Monologophobia-An overwhelming fear of using a word more than once in a single sentence, or even in a single paragraph.

There's a nice article over at About.com.

One painful example (from the above article--go read it if you're blocked on what proper treatment might be in the below case):

Etiology: As a child the patient was probably compelled ( Read more... )