Posts Tagged ‘short story’

I’m extending Dance, Dance into a full-length thing. I remember posting about this a while back – I’m not sure where, though, as I’m having difficulty locating the post.  To refresh your memory, it’s the backstory for Ian Drake.  (So far, I also have backstories for Zoe Lee, Sofie Beretta, and Gary Logan.) In the [...]

Two more stories popped out yesterday! Okay, okay.  I can’t much take credit for one.  It was inspired by a song I was listening to yesterday.  The song, “Light Up the Sky,” is on Yellowcard’s Paper Walls album and can be found in music video format here.  Amazing song. But the story – incidentally also [...]

Elation! I finally wrote something new last night. Not that I haven’t been working dutifully (read: two paragraphs per day) at the sequel to The TECH Project.  I have.  I’m at a wonderful part right now, fraught with drama and tension. But!  This is the first short story I’ve written all summer.  It’s entitled “Dirty [...]

I managed to knock off another short story this past weekend, although “short” would have to be looked at in… we’ll call it “perspective”. It’s nearly 4,500 words long.

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I have discovered the greatest resource in children’s and young adult writers’ known market: the Children’s Writer’s & Illustrator’s Market, published by Writer’s Digest Books. The books is full of all sorts of helpful things, including a listing of agents, tips on writing query letters, a magazine submission section, and even a comprehensive listing of [...]