You have until March 31. (Short notice, I know.)
I nominated Alicia Gifford's amazing story "Back Wash," which appeared in Storyglossia last year.
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Friday, March 27, 2009
Some Nice Feedback
So hey:
Short Stories Blog recently posted a nice little write-up about my story "Three," which Wigleaf/Scott Garson published last year.
But wait, there's more...
SSB also posted something (positive as well) about my story "Please Don't Tell Me That," which appeared in Glimmer Train a while back.
I guess you could call it a two-fer. Or not.
This is really nice. You write something. You hope it doesn't suck. You maybe send it out and then hope for the best (I always think of submitting a story as putting a message in a bottle). And if you're lucky and persistent and it turns out that you perhaps don't suck after all, well, that something you wrote gets published somewhere. And then if you're super lucky, people actual read it, think about it, process it, enjoy it, etc.
Short Stories Blog recently posted a nice little write-up about my story "Three," which Wigleaf/Scott Garson published last year.
But wait, there's more...
SSB also posted something (positive as well) about my story "Please Don't Tell Me That," which appeared in Glimmer Train a while back.
I guess you could call it a two-fer. Or not.
This is really nice. You write something. You hope it doesn't suck. You maybe send it out and then hope for the best (I always think of submitting a story as putting a message in a bottle). And if you're lucky and persistent and it turns out that you perhaps don't suck after all, well, that something you wrote gets published somewhere. And then if you're super lucky, people actual read it, think about it, process it, enjoy it, etc.
Please, Not Another Writer in the Family...
Ethan: “When I grow up I want to be…”
Maria: “Lawyer?”
Me: “Doctor? Professional athlete? Acclaimed Nobel Prize-winning physicist?
Ethan: “No no no. When I grow up I want to be a rhymer!”
Me: “Hmm. The pay isn’t so good for rhymers.”
Ethan. “That’s okay.”
Hmm…
Maria: “Lawyer?”
Me: “Doctor? Professional athlete? Acclaimed Nobel Prize-winning physicist?
Ethan: “No no no. When I grow up I want to be a rhymer!”
Me: “Hmm. The pay isn’t so good for rhymers.”
Ethan. “That’s okay.”
Hmm…
Ethan's Nightmare
Ethan: "Daddy, can I tell you about my nightmare?"
Me: "Sure."
Ethan: “I was asleep on my pillow and then it turned into a giraffe, a monster giraffe, and then we got up and I asked him if he wanted to play trains and he said yes and so we played train tracks and we had a very, very, very good time. And then he turned back into a pillow and slept with his mom.”
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Wallace-ize Your Sentences
How to write like David Foster Wallace.
Does it help to wear a bandana too?
Does it help to wear a bandana too?
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
More Bath Talk
Ethan: "Daddy, why are you old?"
Me: "Well, I just am. People get old."
Ethan: "But why?"
Me: "It just happens. Every time you have a birthday you get a little older. And hopefully a little wiser."
Ethan: "Daddy, I'm never going to get old! I'm new!"
Me: "Well, I just am. People get old."
Ethan: "But why?"
Me: "It just happens. Every time you have a birthday you get a little older. And hopefully a little wiser."
Ethan: "Daddy, I'm never going to get old! I'm new!"
Saturday, March 21, 2009
It's a Literary Trivia Showdown
Do you live in New York? Me neither.
But if you did, you could attend Monday night's literary trivia showdown to celebrate the launch of Slice Magazine's fourth issue (I have a story in there somewhere).
Many fine folks will be in attendance, including Jonathan Lethem, A.J. Jacobs, Lorin Stein and Michelle Brower.
But if you did, you could attend Monday night's literary trivia showdown to celebrate the launch of Slice Magazine's fourth issue (I have a story in there somewhere).
Many fine folks will be in attendance, including Jonathan Lethem, A.J. Jacobs, Lorin Stein and Michelle Brower.
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