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Beating the count

The end of year writing submission tally, and reflections on what I am grateful for.

My 2020 writing goal was 100 rejections and you may remember I didn’t quite make it. This year the goal was the same, with a similar result. I am not quite there yet. Or rather, I will reach 100 rejections sometime early in 2022. I am happy with this. Why? Because over these two years I have written more, edited and polished more completed works, and submitted more works, more often. That is a…

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Use your words

Another writing update

Some know the power of a name. Some possess powers of persuasion. Some wield multiple languages like maestros before orchestras. Some days, there are reminders words matter. The ones we write, the words we don’t say, the details we edit. The stories we tell, and retell and the ones we hold back. I don’t have all the words. I can’t say I have a second language. Some days even the language I do…

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Little fishie

Little fishie and the writing ocean

I’ve turned poetry into flash fiction, cut out sections of short stories to create completely different, even shorter stories, transformed micro pieces into haiku, fashioned tiny windows into imaginary worlds, smashed antonyms together and pulled characters apart. I’ve reshaped endings, lopped off beginnings, and stolen my own middles. I have written to word counts, written for challenges,…

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