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  • Cold day ramblings

    I'm being a good girl and writing up a short story. It's suppose to be funny. I don't think it's really funny. I'll have to finish it and go through it to add in the comedy. Funny stuff doesn't flow naturally out of …

  • Friday list

    I had one of my short stories rejected this morning. It was a finalist and their reason was that I repeated one phrase too much. I had three sections in the story and I repeated it three times - once in each section - …

  • Bunch of stuff

    I'm trying to think of a sci-fi plot idea for my December short story. Sci-fi's the hardest for me to write. My creative mind has felt like it's been wading through sludge lately, though. I had a dream last night that…

  • Waiting

    I'm having troubles with this sci-fi short story. I have ideas for the species of alien that is exploring and for their insights on the human artifacts, but I need a story. I have one of the two aliens whining. Oh, th…

  • It's been one of those blah days. I have no idea how the human body can produce so much snot so quickly. It's like we're changing the air we're breathing into mucus. Breathe in, fill the lungs with oxygen and plug the…

  • Stick it where?

    I was sorting out my short stories list today. I hadn't heard from a few of them and so I looked up the sites. Two of them were done and closed, authors picked. I hadn't even received from them a rejection e-mail. It…