Stories longer than 1000 words, that may or may not be based on prompts.
My regular readers have probably noticed the missing book reviews of the past couple of weeks. I’m still reading and mentally making notes, and the pile of to-reads mounts at a faster pace than the “have reads,” so I’m not without material! What can I say? Life happens. Baby Boy arrived almost two weeks early from…
This marked my second year of NYC Midnight writing challenges, beginning 2016 with the Short Story Challenge. The field is more than 2100 this time, in 60 heats! Each writer is assigned to a group of 35 writers with specific genre, subject matter and character that must be central to the plot. For round 1, the stories were…
Well, unfortunately, Round 2 was as far as I went this year. It was a great experience: I learned a ton, made some great connections and had fun! One of the round 3-ers posted the prompts they received via email and I was immediately inspired, so wrote a piece anyways. The Round 3 Guidelines were: 1500…
The NYC Short Story Competition results from round 1 were posted at 0030 on Thursday, March 12. Out of the 30 writers in my heat, I placed second! WOO-HOO! This meant I moved on with four others from that heat (and another two hundred thirty-five writers total) to round 2 of competition, with a new genre,…
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