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Announcing “The Most Powerful Man in the World and other stories”

In a few days, I will be publishing my next Kindle minianthology, “The Most Powerful Man in the World and other stories.” When I do, I will make another post with a link to it as well as the blurb, but for now I want to show you the cover, designed by Sandra Giles of Words From Another World. If that name sounds familiar, it’s because she also designed the cover of my story “Rise.”

Political Pies sequester sale!

Last year, I decided to try to promote each of my books for a month, starting with my anthologies and moving on to my other stories. So I’m working on promoting my third anthology – Political Pies – during the month of March, when everyone is sick of hearing about politics because of the sequester. Joy. Now part of my promotions are a weekend where people will be able to download the Kindle versions for free, and for Political Pies that will be on Saturday March 9th, and Sunday March 10th. So...

Writing pet peeve, “What are we doing here?”

This is something I’ve seen several times in short stories or novels over the years. I recently saw this in a short story by a famous author, which prompted this rant.

Basically, what happens is a group of people set out on an expedition, either to another planet or back in time. It takes months or years of work to outfit the ship and/or fly to the other planet. Shortly after they arrive, one of the crew raises their hand and asks, “What are we doing here?” Now, I’m not talking about military...

Wednesday Writing Prompt

You can read all you want about writing, but the real test is to actually write something. Hence, a short exercise for those of you wanting to hone your craft.

Quick, compose a sentence using the words “napkin” and “drink.” Leave it as a comment.

Promoting Political Pies

Late last year I decided I would spend the first three months of this year promoting my three anthologies, giving them a little boost. I should have realized, that politicians would have done something to make people sick of politics when I was promoting my third anthology, Political Pies. But what are you going to do.

Here’s the book description:

Everybody complains about politics, but does anyone do anything about it? Stephen L. Thompson’s attempt to do something about it is to collect forty...

Stephen L. Thompson’s February 2013 Newsletter

Howdy,

Welcome to my electronic newsletter, covering February 2013.

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My publication news for the past month:

Publication of my short story “This Generation” on my Ficly profile.

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This month I wrote 11,606 words giving me a yearly total so far of 21,644. My goal this year is to write 120,000 words, so I am well ahead of schedule.

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I don’t really have any other writing news. There are some ideas I hope to put into blogs, but that’s about it. But here is a haiku for the month.

Enjoy,

Steve

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Wednesday Writing Prompt

You can read all you want about writing, but the real test is to actually write something. Hence, a short exercise for those of you wanting to hone your craft.

Quick, compose a sentence using the words “glass” and “simple.” Leave it as a comment.

20,000 words!

One of my goals this year is to write 120,000 words, which means I need to average 10,000 words a month. In January, I wrote 10,038 and so far in February, with two days left, I’ve written 10, 183. So I’m 20,221 words towards my goal ahead of schedule.

Wednesday Writing Prompt

You can read all you want about writing, but the real test is to actually write something. Hence, a short exercise for those of you wanting to hone your craft.

Quick, compose a sentence using the words “taps” and “wall.” Leave it as a comment.

200 Days!

Just before 1:00 AM on February 14th, I opened one of my ebook projects and did a little revision. Because of that, I can now say that I have written every day for the past 200 days. And in that time, I’ve written 45,554 words. And the best part is, today isn’t even over yet.

On to 300!