14 hours ago by Jeff Hess

Found in my electronic chapbook. The function of the opening is: getting the story moving (p. 138); setting the tone (p. 139) or establishing the problem (p. 140). From Telling Lies for Fun and Profit: A Manual for Fiction Writers by Lawrence Block. I wrote 1,667 words yesterday morning and my total ...

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16 hours ago by mjbarz

Well, I'm 7 for 7 in the Writer's Digest Poetic Asides November Poem a Day Chapbook Challenge. Anyone else participating?

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1 day ago by mariegauthier

I’m drinking coffee at my desk. The baby’s napping, Lance took Vincent for a walk. And I’ve just noticed a couple phrases Lance scrawled on the legal pad on my desk at some point in the last day or so: “Robust incoherence” and “transcendent vacuity”. I don’t know if he was criticizing something hims ...

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1 day ago by Sweet Jane

What am I supposed to give Anthony as a wedding gift? I asked Kristin, my bridesmaid and person-who-was-married. I mean what kinds of things do brides give their grooms? I was thinking of hiring someone to clean the house before we left for the honeymoon so we’d come back to a spotless house. Is tha ...

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2 days ago by Jeff Hess

Found in my electronic chapbook. When I watch a character behave stupidly, I find myself calculating what he should do, and what the effects of this proper behavior will be. Occasionally my solution to his problem is sufficiently different from the author’s, and seems to constitute a sufficient impr ...

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3 days ago by grayestone

So much is happening these days at Folded Word that I can only think in bullets: chapbook and glimpse at your chances Our chapbook giveaway is still on. You have 25 days left to enter (again). Details here. Remember, linking to any of our chapbook-related blog posts from your blog gets you two entri ...

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3 days ago by exclamate

To: Elizabeth Morris From: Lazy Eye Press Subject: Your Submission Dear Liz Morris, Congratulations! On behalf of Lazy Eye Press, we would like to inform you that The Girl With Strawberry Hair has been selected as the winner of the poetry chapbook contest. Out of all of the submissions received, the ...

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3 days ago by Jeff Hess

Found in my electronic chapbook. Like many people who wind up writing, I’ve always tended to be interested in a great many things. I’m given to intense if short-lived enthusiasms, taking up hobbies and areas of interest with a passion, reading everything I can get my hands on about them, pursuing th ...

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3 days ago by volenska

Angela Carr’s chapbook is now available! Click the image below to read.

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3 days ago by grayestone

click on the picture to see more Want your first glimpse at the hand-crafted print version of Jessie Carty’s forthcoming chapbook, The Wait of Atom? Then click on over to our Flickr set. Jessie’s print-edition chapbook is still available for pre-order. Her e-chapbook will be available at the Kindle ...

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