by Bill Ward on October 28, 2008
in Writing
A recent discussion over at the SFReader forums on developing a thick skin in the short fiction submissions game got me thinking about rejection, and how it doesn’t really bother me anymore. I’m not bragging, I certainly haven’t had nearly the level of success or landed the sales to many of markets that I most [...]
Nothing is ever lost. If you have moved over vast territories and dared to love silly things, you will have learned even from the most primitive items collected and put aside in your life. From an ever-roaming curiosity in all the arts, from bad radio to good theatre, from nursery rhyme to symphony, from jungle [...]
by Bill Ward on October 17, 2008
in Writing
Sometimes it seems as if the laws of weirdness stack up to create the illusion of the unlucky — or, dare I say it, the cursed. I’ve got a story that just doesn’t seem to have even the normal, ‘getting rejected every three or four months’ kind of bad luck that at least keeps a [...]
by Bill Ward on October 15, 2008
in Writing
In a search for a writing tool more portable (and not as damn hot!) as my monstrous 17″ laptop, I stumbled across the Alphasmart family of products. Essentially portable keyboards with a built-in memory, they looked exactly like what I needed; they are cheap compared to a laptop, very portable, have a nice keyboard, and [...]