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  • Thoughts on NaNoWriMo

    People have been asking me lately — as they do every year — whether or not I will participate in National Novel Writing Month. The answer — as it is every year — is probably not. November is a busy time for school. I’ll be writing essays and reading books and doing all manner of…

  • Story of the Week #9 — “Chance” by Conor Powers-Smith

    Found a horror/fantasy/speculative fiction mag called Black Treacle the other day. They are a Canada-based online magazine that publishes bimonthly. Though I’m not from Canada (and they give preference to Canadian writers), I submitted something anyway. The worst they can say is no. This week’s Story of the Week is, actually, written by a guy…

  • Warning: Liz Hasn’t Slept and Therefore This Post Has Nothing to do with Anything

    I am currently running on approximately two hours of sleep. I am still in the loopy, WOOHOO I CAN DO EVERYTHING JUST DON’T LET ME STOP OR I WILL DIE mode of sleeplessness. Which means, of course, that I am doing fifteen things at once, including writing this post. My beautiful kitties found an invading…

  • Kenneth W. Cain’s Markets

    My friend Kenneth W. Cain is a freaking beast at Internet research. He just updated his list of horror/fantasy/sci-fi markets, most of which are paying. I’m definitely going to be using this one. Holy cow. Good job, dude. Who needs duotrope when you’ve got this guy? Check it out here. Psst. Check out his work…

  • Trifecta Writing Prompt: PHANTOM

    I found a thing! I love all these online avenues that push us to create on a weekly/daily basis. Trifecta is a weekly prompt that requires writers to come up with a story between 33 and 333 words that uses the third definition (in a standard dictionary) of a given word. This week, the word is…

  • NEAT. Submissions!

    Would just like to remind everyone that NEAT. is still open for submissions until October 31. We’re looking for endings — or beginnings that come from endings. A little Halloween horror, a little sci-fi, a little whatever-the-heck-you-want-to-write. We want to read it. :) We’re accepting fiction, poetry, non-fiction, and photography. Check out the website here.…

  • Time to Start Reading for My Thesis, a lesson in stress (mis)management

    *Jaws Music* Dun dun dun dun  . . . Time to start reading. I’ve been working steadily on the first draft of my novel over the past few months and have knocked out a substantial chunk — I made it to 63k this week, which is a monstrous number of words if you ask me.…

  • Story of the Week #8 — “State Forests” by David Ryan

    Finally getting back into the Stories of the Week with this wonderful little story by David Ryan. “State Forests” was published by Booth, the graduate literary magazine of Butler University. The basic summary of the story is this: a man encounters another standing on a bridge waiting to jump. They both jump, but the man…

  • Work Goes Faster When You Can Dance at Your Desk

    … and that goes doubly for when you’re writing. Sadly, I am not doing that right now. But I AM listening to the fantastic new album from Panic! at the Disco. I think people are going to give them shit for this one, but I actually love it. It’s like they took a look inside…

  • The first issue of NEAT. is now live!

    Hellooooo all of my beautiful followers. I promised you yesterday that I would have news about NEAT. Well, lo and behold, we are LIVE. NEAT. started as a conversation in the beginning of July between myself and my friend TM Keesling. We asked each other: How can we create something that we will be proud…