Bill Ward's blog of all things genre
Over at Flash Fiction Chronicles today I have a post that recalls my misspent youth with some fondness. You see, it turns out all that time I spent reading Dungeons & Dragons rulebooks and Warhammer’s White Dwarf Magazine, I was actually learning how to write flash fiction. Yup, it’s true, all those little snipets of [...]
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A couple of online magazines have recently posted calls for slush readers, Every Day Fiction and Fantasy, to be exact. A while back I wrote a three-piece article all about the benefits of taking a stint as a slush reader called Get Thee to a Slush Pile, and in it I share my personal experiences [...]
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For my 200th post (huzzah!) I’d like to direct your attention to a web resource for writers of incredible usefulness. Ralan’s Spec Fic & Humor Webstravaganza which is, if you don’t know, a free listing of magazines, anthologies, book publishers, freezines, websites, and any and every conceivable other venue for the publishing of fiction. Until [...]
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For your delectation this Friday I have prepared two bloggish morsels on subjects various and writerly. First, over at Black Gate, I’ve posted a notice about a new award for adventure fantasy short fiction called . . . wait for it . . . The Ham-Sized Fist Award. Appetite whetted? For a bigger bite head [...]
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A while ago I mentioned some distraction-free, full-screen word processors, namely Write-Or-Die and Darkroom. Well, though both applications had elements I liked (and Write-Or-Die was downright amusing with its incorporation of ‘punishment’), neither really did the trick. Well, I may have found something that does. FocusWriter, available free from Gott Code, may just be the [...]
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