Category: Writing
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My Writing Space
Welcome! This week I thought I’d draw from the well of “blog topics for authors” lists found in Google, and write a topic I’ve been wanting to use: “Share a picture of your writing space and talk about some unique or special things you have within that space.” My office…
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Outlining: Back to the Board
I had a phone meeting with my director/producer over the weekend. Got some questions answered and received some much needed guidance. All that means that I’m back to working on the horror feature I can’t talk too much about. But what I can talk about is one of my favorite…
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Rejection Goal: 50/100
As some of my regular readers may know, I’ve set a goal for myself to hit 100 story rejections before the end of the year. This goal isn’t to simply send out garbage to get those rejections, but is an attempt to accept that a certain amount of success in…
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Overcoming Writer’s Block
Today, we’re going to talk about a subject every writer faces from time to time: Writer’s Block. Everybody deals with it, and everybody’s got their own two cents to add to the discussion on how to overcome it. Here’s mine! I want to start by making a distinction. When I…
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Cosmic Horror
The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown. H.P. Lovecraft As a lifelong fan of science, specifically space, science fiction has always been an obvious choice for me as a reader. Couple that with the fact that…
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General Short Story News!
That’s right! Time for a news break! If you are a regular reader of this blog, you may recall a few weeks ago, I wrote about some “firsts” in my writing life; one of which was rewriting an old story from scratch. To briefly recap, I was asked to contribute…
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Writing Outside Your Genre
For the last two years, I have participated in a couple of NYC Midnight’s writing challenges, specifically the Short Story and Screenwriting Challenges. Last year, I made it to the second round of both contests. Right now, I’m waiting on results from the first round of each contest to see if I…
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Firsts
This week, I am embarking on a couple of firsts for my writing career. The first “first” came earlier this month when I was invited to contribute a story to an upcoming anthology. I’ve never been asked to submit anything, so that’s exciting! The topic for the anthology is “tales of the…
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Rejection Goal: 100
This week, I was going to talk about how busy I’ve suddenly become. I was going to tell you all about how I heard back from the publisher that requested the full transcript of Gas Giant Gambit, and how they were just telling me they hadn’t gotten a chance to read…
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Perseid Prophecies
*”Perseid” is misspelled in the URL because I misspelled it in the title of this blog! But even though I can easily fix both, I won’t be fixing the URL because then all the links I shared will break. Oh well, just goes to show you should always spell check!…
E.S. Raye 