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March 5, 2013
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.
March 1, 2013
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...
February 28, 2013
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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February 26, 2013
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.
February 19, 2013
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.
February 13, 2013
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!
February 12, 2013
Introducing Wednesday Writing Prompt
I used to put up short writing exercises as a Monday Writing Prompt on this other site, but for various reasons, I haven’t done it for a couple months. And since it can take me a couple months to realize something, I just realized I should restart doing that here. And the reason I’m doing Wednesday now instead of Monday, is I thought of this late on a Tuesday and didn’t feel like waiting. So let’s begin.
You can read all you want about writing, but the real test is to actually write something....
February 8, 2013
Birthday giveaway – 136 free storiesBirthday giveaway – 136 free stories
My birthday is this weekend, and as my gift to you, four of my Kindle ebooks (The All-You-Can-Read Buffet, Political Pies, “Brain for Rent and other stories,” and “Rise”) will be free Saturday, February 9th, and Sunday February 10th. Also, with this Kindle thing I get five free promotion days each quarter, and I’ve already used up four for A Man of Few Words, so it will just be free this Sunday. All together they contain 136 stories that you can have for free. So check them out.
February 3, 2013
The All-You-Can-Read Buffet
Last month, I made a push on promoting my first short story anthology, A Man of Few Words. This month, I’m doing the same with my second anthology, The All-You-Can-Read Buffet. It contains forty stories covering various genres and themes ranging from six to over 4,200 words in length. They also cover a wide time range. Some of these stories I began writing a decade ago, while others were written especially for this collection. All together, they are a buffet of my writing. As such, I encourag...
