Writing Opportunity – Machine of Death

Surfing around the Internet yesterday, I found another great writing opportunity at a website called Machine of Death. Harsh title aside, this is a really great idea. First of all, they have written an idea for a story and are looking for writers to give their take on it. The idea [...]

The Flogometer – A Site to Improve Your Writing

Writer Unboxed had an interesting article today about feedback in general and the site Flogging the Quill specifically. According to the article, Ray (of Flogging the Quill) has developed something he is calling the Flogometer in which he accepts the first two pages of readers’ novels and then does two things: first, he [...]

BBC – Get Writing

I just wanted to point you to a nice resource I found today via del.icio.us/writing: BBC – Get Writing. The link I have provided takes you to the beginner’s courses, though they have more advanced courses as well. The site contains some good articles regarding the craft of writing, including an [...]

Shimmer Magazine Deadline Change

It was just posted on Shimmer Magazine’s website that they have moved the deadline for submissions for their Pirate Issue to February 28th.  So, you all have a month to write a short story about pirates and submit it to Shimmer.
As for my own story, I am very close to completion, but this deadline change [...]

Warm, Squishy Feeling followed by Bitter Cold

Warm, Squishy Feeling
Last night was the first time since I have began my current work-in-progress (the Pirate story) that someone other than myself has read my story. I felt I finally had something to show off, and I let my wife read it, stressing I was less concerned with grammar than if the [...]

Writing Contest Judged by John Grisham

O.K., one more quick contest link. I found this one at the blog Charlottesville Words while skimming “Tag Surfer” in wordpress. This contest is pretty impressive as it will be judged by John Grisham. The contest itself is being sponsored by the weekly newspaper The Hook. As for contest [...]

Agent to the Stars – John Scalzi (Read This)

As I have mentioned here before, I read Hugo Award-nominated author John Scalzi’s blog Whatever every day. On this very entertaining blog he writes about anything from politics, to writing, to everyday stuff. One of the best features of the site is that he interviews various up and coming authors (actually posted [...]

A Book, a Contest, and a Death?

I just thought I would point you all to some cool stuff I have seen on the internet today, since my brain still thinks it’s Monday.
The Book
Boing Boing had a link to an interesting book titled Talk the Talk: The Slang of 65 American Subcultures. Here is a quote from Cory Doctorow about [...]

1984 as a Web Comic

I just saw on Boing Boing that George Orwell’s novel 1984 is being done on the web as a web comic. I checked it out and it is pretty well done so far. I read 1984 for the first time a couple years ago on Project Gutenberg and really enjoyed that novel. [...]

Shimmer Magazine Submission Guidelines

Since I know a few of you are planning on submitting stories to Shimmer Magazine for their Pirate issue, I thought I should point out a few things that may give you a better shot at being published.  First of all, here is a link to their submission guidelines.  On that page is also a [...]