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 [...]
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Happenings and Happenstance
Ok, apparently, I’ve been terribly neglectful of my blog these past few days. I’ve actually got two entries in draft form that I just haven’t quite finished yet. So, in an effort to catch myself up on some of my happenings the last few days, here’s a short bullet-list:
Remember when I posted a visual writing prompt? [...]
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 [...]
Oh So Busy
Well, I’m afraid that my writing time has been at a bit of a minimum the last week or two. In addition, I’ve had no time as yet to develop the new WordPress theme for Flashes of Speculation in preparation for its re-launch. This is due, in part, to the fact that I’m back to [...]
Navigationally Speaking
I’ve been working on my navigation menus throughout the day today, in the few spare moments I get in between tasks. On my blog here, I’ve finally moved the entirety of my navigation menu up the menubar where it belongs. I’ve also finally added in the global navigation bits for my photoblog, archive, and Flashes [...]
Callout for Flash Fiction Stories
With the Flashes of Speculation redesign complete, I’m putting the callout again for submissions. If you write science fiction, fantasy, or horror and are looking for an outlet for your writing, then please consider Flashes of Speculation. Stories need to be 1000 words or less.
FoS could use a little promotion, as well. If you’re a contributing [...]
FoS Redesigned
I’ve just finished a complete site redesign on Flashes of Speculation, giving it what is, I hope, a unique and attractive layout.
I built this template – called Speculation (for obvious reasons) – from the ground up, stripping the necessary files down to the bare code to keep WordPress running and then builing everything back up around that. The result is [...]
Reviving Flashes
I really would like to get Flashes of Speculation into a much more active status – more submissions coming in, more interaction from readers (both on the site itself and on the discussion board I’ve created for it), more of everything that will launch it more into the public eye. Unfortunately, though, marketing has never been a [...]
Coincidence?
Ever notice how life seems to lump common themes closely together? For instance, I was chatting with a friend earlier today about his blog’s tagline, which originated from the Cheshire cat from Alice’s Wonderland. Then I receive a story for Flashes of Speculation that gives a nod to that famous feline, as well. This sort [...]