Over 500 Followers!! Thank you to each and every one of you who has chosen to follow Experience Writing. I hope you continue to enjoy this writing journey. This is exciting! The Planner Experiment How are your submissions going? Are the planner pages helping? Do you have any suggestions for this week’s pages? I foundContinue reading “The Planner Experiment: #CallForSubmissions”
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The First Week of March Planning Pages & March Reading Goals
Here are the pages to plan out this week: 2019 Planner March Week One This week includes an interesting selection of literary magazines and a podcast along with original writing prompts. March Reading Plan I picked up a really fun selection of books from the library to read this month. Novels If on a Winter’sContinue reading “The First Week of March Planning Pages & March Reading Goals”
The Planner Experiment: Here Comes March
I apologize for not getting this out yesterday as I intended, but I did get my story off to 3 Elements Review, so I’ll call that a win. The Experiment So Far So far, this experiment is doing exactly what I hoped it would do. I am aware of deadlines ahead of time and ableContinue reading “The Planner Experiment: Here Comes March”
The Planner Project: Final Days of February
Here we are at the end of the first full month of planner pages and looking toward the month of March. For these last few pages, I decided to try a background. I used a section of a painting I did for my niece for Christmas. I lightened it and set it as a graphicContinue reading “The Planner Project: Final Days of February”
Craft Book Review: Write Your Book In A Flash by Dan Janal
Write Your Book In A Flash by Dan Janal published by TCK Publishing is intended to guide professionals through writing a business-oriented non-fiction book, but has many useful tips for fiction writers as well. I recommend this book for everyone who is thinking about writing a book. Why I picked it up: I received an emailContinue reading “Craft Book Review: Write Your Book In A Flash by Dan Janal”
The Planner Experiment: February Week Three Planner Pages
As I write this, I’m listening to short stories from Asimov’s Science Fiction on their podcast. I also discovered and have been listening to The CryptoNaturalist. I hope to have stories on both of them some day. Earlier today I enjoyed listening to stories, some read by the authors, over at Three-Lobed Burning Eye. IContinue reading “The Planner Experiment: February Week Three Planner Pages”
The Planner Experiment: Micro-fiction
This planner project is already working for me. This week I received my second rejection. The sting only lasted a moment this time. The rejection letter even suggested that I submit something to their next reading period, so I’ll keep that in mind for my deadlines. I edited and submitted two other stories to differentContinue reading “The Planner Experiment: Micro-fiction”
Fantasy, Horror and Sci-Fi. Oh my!
Just when I thought I had run out of paying markets for the planner, I happened upon Locus, a journal that reviews speculative fiction journals which expanded my knowledge of available paying markets. Speculative Fiction Speculative fiction includes: Science Fiction, Fantasy, Adventure Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Horror, Slipstream, Weird, Bizarro, and more. Curious what slipstream is?Continue reading “Fantasy, Horror and Sci-Fi. Oh my!”
Here Comes February – The first week of planner pages
Today’s the day! I organized all of the pages of my planner that I’ve created so far into one file and am actually posting it for you when I said I would. Yay! I find it fitting and poetic that I also received my first rejection of the year this morning! How great is that?Continue reading “Here Comes February – The first week of planner pages”
The Deadlines: Collecting and organizing
I made a breakthrough over the weekend. I entered the information I’ve been collecting about different literary magazines and their reading windows into a spreadsheet. Now I can easily sort all of the reading periods by deadlines and what month I want to include them in my planner. I also added spreadsheet pages for contests,Continue reading “The Deadlines: Collecting and organizing”
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