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May 21, 2011
Ten days until madness
On June 1 I will once more descend into madness in my fourth attempt to write 30 Stories in 30 Days. On that page you can read how this came about (as well as the 90 stories I've written the first three years) and see that I'm doing something different this year. Instead of posting the stories on my website, I'm going to be posting them here on this blog. The reason for the change is I think it will be easier for me to upload my stories and people will now be able to comment on them. It s...
May 5, 2011
Happy Publication Day!
My book A Man of Few Words is one year old today!
If you haven't purchased your copy yet, now would be the perfect time. Hint hint, nudge nudge, wink wink. 
April 30, 2011
Stephen L. Thompson's April 2011 Newsletter
Howdy,
Welcome to my electronic newsletter, covering April 2011.
My publication news for the past month:
Publication of my story "The Perils of Spring"on my Ficly account.
Acceptance of my story "Housebreaking" by AntipodeanSF. It will be published – in print and as audio – in September.
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This month I wrote 2,481 words, giving me a total this year of 12,985. Again my goal is to write a total of 50,000 words this year, so I need to get busy.
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Here is my story board at the end of April:
It...
April 16, 2011
Title reaction
I'm working on a story collection, but I've had a hard time coming up with a title. The working title is The Future is Strange, and I'm wondering what you're knee-jerk reaction would be to a book with that title. Just leave a quick comment. In a month or so I'll write up why I'm leaning towards that title, and see what you think about it then.
March 31, 2011
Stephen L. Thompson's March 2011 Newsletter
Howdy,
Welcome to my electronic newsletter, covering March 2011.
My publication news for the past month:
None.
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This month I wrote 4,128 words, giving me a total this year of 10,504. Again my goal is to write a total of 50,000 words this year, so I need to get busy.
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Two new things. A few weeks ago, I bought a dry erase board and wrote up a list of my stories. I soon filled it up and had to go back and rewrite everything smaller. As I said at the time, I could take a picture of the b...
March 30, 2011
I've been writing for 30 Days!
It wasn't really a New Year's Resolution, but I wanted to try to write something every day this year. I keep track of how many words I write each day, and looking back I see that there were a few days in January I didn't write anything, many days in February where I didn't write anything, but for the first thirty days of March I've written something everyday. If I write something tomorrow – and I'm pretty sure I can make that happen – it would be the second time I've filled a month with...
March 29, 2011
10,000 words!
I keep track of how many words I write each day. My goal this year is to write 50,000 words. Well today I hit the 10,000 word mark. If you're quick with math, you notice that I'm 1/5 of the way to my goal about 1/4 of the way through the year. So I better get to work.
