Those of you who have been subjected to my gaming-related posts here can breathe a sigh of relief – I’ve got a new gaming column called The Casual Gamer over at Difference In Opinion, so most of my gaming-related essays will probably appear there almost exclusively. Now, Difference in Opinion is a website built by a friend [...]
Writing
New FoS Stories
This is what happens when you don’t receive submissions for awhile. You neglect to check for new entries, and so you end up with a couple in the queue that you didn’t know about. But it also means is that Flashes of Speculation has two new stories up today – one from new contributor Linda Courtland about [...]
Book Reviews for an Alien
Check it out – my first set of book reviews for someone other than myself. Awhile back, Jason Sizemore, the editor-in-chief of Apex Digest put out a call for a part-time book reviewer. I responded, gave him some past samples of a couple of books reviews I’ve done here, and then he shipped a book to me. [...]
He/She/It vs. They/Them
Irregular Webcomic has a funny strip up today that’s doubly amusing for writers. I’ve always known that using ‘they’ or ‘them’ as a pronoun to refer back to an (indeterminate) individual is technically bad grammar, but as is pointed out in the notes that follow the strip, doing so is the best of the options [...]
Apex Digest and Clarity of Night
A couple of items of note:
Apex Digest is running a subscription drive. They need more subscribers in order to be able to raise the pay rate for contributing writers. If you like science fiction and horror, then I highly recommend this publication. Go order a subscription or three!
Jason Evans at The Clarity of Night has opened his [...]
Writing Prompt #2
As promised here’s this week’s writing prompt. I’m even going to try to find time to whip up a story for it myself. Remember to keep the story at 1000 words or less. Comment here with a link back to your story, and at the end of the week, I’ll compile all the links into [...]
Flashes of Speculation – Relaunch Examined
Flashes of Speculation has been awake again for less than 24 hours, and already I’m very happy with things. I’ve had a handful of past contributors declare their excitement at its revival, and I’ve had three new stories posted already, accomplished through new registrations and stories submitted for review. That system already seems to work [...]
Flashes of Speculation Open Once Again
After a six-month hiatus, Flashes of Speculation is once more open for business. With the site’s re-launch comes an upgrade to WordPress 2.3 and a new, magazine-style theme, courtesy of The Design Canopy. I am looking for contributions to the site, stories that are no longer than 1000 words and fall into any or all [...]
Writing Prompt #1
I’d like to try something new – but it’s going to require a bit of reader participation. I know I don’t really have the time to sit down and do a lot of fiction writing right now, and I suspect there are a lot of others in the same boat. But I do know that the only [...]