Tag: short story

Publishing Opportunity for Young Writers

ByRachel October 31, 2009 0 Comments
Are you a young writer looking for publishing opportunities? Writers 25 and under with unpublished short pieces should check out Survival By Storytelling Magazine, a small publication by blogger Shaun Duke and Young Writers Online.net. SBS publishes short work of any genre by young authors. Fiction, plays, poetry and nonfiction articles are all accepted. Submission guidelines and other...

NaNoWriMo

ByRachel October 20, 2009 2 Comments
For the first time--ever--I'm going to participate in NaNoWriMo. I wanted to last year, but urgent revisions on my novel prevented me from starting any new rough drafts. You can't churn out revisions on a quick schedule the way you can with fresh material. However, before NaNo, I have a few housekeeping matters with my writing. The first being to send out the two short stories I've been meaning...

Publishing Short Stories

ByRachel August 26, 2009 2 Comments
We novel writers feel the temptation to put all our publishing eggs in one basket. Because novels are so time-consuming to produce, we spend most of our writing time on that and little (if any) on short stories or articles. Trouble is, short stories and articles have a greater chance of getting published, thus creating that valuable list of publishing credits that agents and editors like to see...

Shameless Plugs

ByRachel June 30, 2009 4 Comments
For anyone interested in my current projects, here's a post completely dedicated to shameless plugging of my own work. Yay! Flynn--A 16-year-old orphan is asked to take her parents' place and lead the kingdom against a vicious race of Warlocks, but she doubts her abilities and fears that Prince Aramor may just be using her to save his own skin. (YA epic fantasy, ages 13-18, about 430...