Writing more short fiction in 2015

For the past three years I’ve been a novelist, but I started out writing short fiction. In 2015 I’m going to try and get back to my roots.

“The best hygiene for beginning writers or intermediate writers is to write a hell of a lot of short stories. If you write one short story a week, doesn’t matter what the quality is to start,

but at least you’re practicing. And at the end of the year you have 52 short stories. And I defy you to write 52 bad ones.” – Ray Bradburry

It’s already four weeks into the year, so I’m not going to be quite following Ray’s advice here, but I do plan on writing more short fiction in 2015. More importantly, I’m going to be trying to get some of my shorts published.

I actually enjoy the submission and query process. There’s a mechanical simplicity to it, researching target markets, sending off a story, then letting the machine do its work while you write the next one.

Maybe I’m just weird.

After publication, once the rights of a given story have reverted to me, I’ll send them to my mailing list.

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