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Vanishing Print Zines

by Bill Ward on June 15, 2009

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With today’s news that Talebones is ceasing operations as a magazine, I figured I’d better publish this post — which I’d written a few days ago and in which Talebones was still listed as a survivor — before I have to make any more changes to it. I was recently going through some notes — [...]

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The enfant terrible of SF just turned 75, and if anything Harlan Ellison seems more energetic, irascible, and interesting than ever. Just caught the documentary all about Ellison on the Sundance Channel the other night, Dreams With Sharp Teeth. It’s hilarious, as you’d expect, but also rather touching, even if it did talk less than [...]

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Speaking of Flash . . .

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by Bill Ward on May 13, 2009

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Over at Flash Fiction Chronicles today I’ve posted about how flash fiction lets a writer really experiment with execution, especially when it comes to authorial voice. In The Many Voices of Flash I talk about how flash’s quick and somewhat disposable nature makes it a perfect vehicle for experimentation, but beyond that it is the [...]

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Flashercise Over At Flash Fiction Chronicles

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by Bill Ward on May 6, 2009

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Now, having newly discovered the very cool Flash Fiction Chronicles blog, I’ve wasted no time getting some scribbles of my own over there in the hopes that the coolness will rub off on me. My first post there, Flash: The Best Exercise, is up today, and in it I talk about how flash affords writers [...]

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Flash Fiction Chronicles

by Bill Ward on April 28, 2009

in Writing,Zines

Having been out of the loop for a while, I completely missed Every Day Fiction’s new Flash Fiction blog until recently, but it’s been a pleasure to catch up on the entries over there. Flash Fiction Chronicles, edited by EDF regular Gay Degani, is exactly what it appears to be: a blog focused completely on [...]

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I’ve always loved single author short story collection, but I realize I’m in a minority — the sort of people who devour forewords, afterwords, and author’s notes, always hunt for biographical notes in books and magazines, and read non-fiction books about their favorite authors. Knowing that short story collections of any kind, both multi-author anthologies [...]

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