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Oct
19
2010

Sparkpunk won’t stand for that crap anymore

by Adam

I should have known I was in for a rough day when I woke up to rain. Not that rain is unusual, but I’d never seen it rain in Santa Monica before. It was a nice rain, though, the kind that you don’t mind walking to work in. After a weekend spent riding buses and [...]

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Oct
10
2010

Travel ahoy

by Adam

It’s a good feeling to put the word END after the last paragraph of a manuscript. This story was born week five of Clarion but I couldn’t make it work then. A little bit of time away and with four days of sporadic effort, it’s a story. Rough around the edges like any first draft but I [...]

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Oct
10
2010

Armed with a palm full of spit and vigor

by Adam

Project: Sex/magic story, now with more poly love, a plump dominatrix, a Chicago swinger’s club, and one pissed off magician. New words written: 1,210 Reason for stopping: End of scene One more scene left before I can make draft, so I’m on target to wrap this up by the end of the weekend. Today’s been [...]

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Oct
07
2010

Back in the saddle, now with statistics

by Adam

I’ve been a little slow getting back into the habit of writing new words since I’ve been back from Clarion. Besides catching up on ye olde day job, I’ve been working on revisions and submissions, organizing my inventory list, and other life issues. Most of the stories in my backlog are either trunked, needing rewrites, [...]

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Jan
16
2010

Week 2: A step slightly staggered

by Adam

A new short story and a flash fiction drafted, and a second short story underway. Over 7,500 new words this year, with my average rising to 509 words/day.  The Honorable Mention nod and a personal rejection also came in. The year is off to a good start. I’m still struggling with revisions. I failed my [...]

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Jan
01
2010

2009 Submission Statistics

by Adam

It wasn’t the best year writing-wise. Eight new stories, one of which was flash and four were “hint fiction”. Two stories from 2008 were edited repeatedly and eventually submitted, both to Writers of the Future. Fifteen submissions, thirteen rejections, and one rewrite request. If my Duotope statistics are accurate, nine were personal rejections (one from [...]

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