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Short Story in Bewildering Stories
A short story of mine is in an e-zine called Bewildering Stories. It's in the fourth quarter review and is an "Editor's Choice" which included about half of the short stories from the Fourth Quarter Review. Then those with an Editor's Choice go on to "compete" for the Annual Review. writingCreativity
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Creativity
What are the main ways by which you express yourself?
What are a few aspects of your creative self that could be more fully expressed?I mainly express myself creatively through my writing, drawing/painting, scrapbooking (to ( Read more... )Avoidant Personality and Creative Endeavors
"Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly ( Read more... )Insight into my Perspective
I finished reading A New Earth and really liked it, though not all of the viewpoints fit for me. However, it's given me a lot of ideas on how to improve my outlook on memories and staying more present "in the moment" instead of focusing so much on the past and future. I'm trying to look at past problems and seeing what I learned from each ( Read more... )New Goals and a New Personal Commandment
Personal Commandments1. Only I can make myself happy ( Read more... )Open Office Is Causing Me Pain
The literary agency doesn't use Open Office so Michael and I have been copy and pasting and then fixing the formatting of my manuscripts. From now on I'll always use Microsoft Works-_- Though I'm going to finish my current short story in Open Office, but short stories are a lot less time-consuming to fix than a novel. And my other novels are way ( Read more... )My Manuscript(s) Were Requested!
Today I got good news: A literary agency has requested to see my whole manuscript(s). I emailed them to ask if they have Open Office (since they stated in the email that they have almost all word processing programs). If they do have Open Office I can just send my manuscripts as they are now -- if they don't Michael and I will spend a long time ( Read more... )Going Very Slowly at Things...
Today I rode my bike and painted a bit. I'm not painting that much each day... I used to paint for many hours in one sitting. Lately I've just been taking it a step at a time, and focusing on one area/element each day. Slowly my paintings get complete. Maybe tonight I'll feel more like painting again and I will add more. I still just feel my ( Read more... )