Another day, another rejection. These are the days it never rains but it pours. There are a few journals I would like to be published in within Australia and yet again it's another one gone. There was a time yet another rejection in such a dire point in my life would have floored me. But I'm clear-eyed, … Continue reading Any way the wind blows
Publishing
Physics of Writing
The writer's Heisenberg Uncertainty Principal: You can know where the work should go, but not if it is acceptable. If acceptable, you can't know where to send it. But once sent out into the world, Aeons pass. Stars are born and die. In the space left between atoms and galaxies, Writers are meant to maintain … Continue reading Physics of Writing
More please
In writing, as in physics, once things begin to happen, they keep happening. I've just had another story accepted and it'll be out next month. It will be the second published from my once upon a time ex-almost collection, so at least some of it was on the right track. A lot of time is spent … Continue reading More please
Betting the farm
In farming, there are certain paddocks you leave fallow. It is said crop rotation means no one area is ever completely exhausted of nutrients. I'm thinking of this space as one which I've left fallow while I recover. It's not like I haven't been busy though. There has been art and writing and work and … Continue reading Betting the farm
Shameless Self Promotion (Hashtag Writing)
A post subtitled: where else to find writing by me. Apart from my thoughtful posts about SF TV and other important issues here, my most recent writing was published at Sparks of Consciousness blog here. It is a mock pretentious literary analysis speculative fiction essay/story experimental thing called : writer of nil repute. … Continue reading Shameless Self Promotion (Hashtag Writing)