Looking for some fun summer reading? I hope you’ll check out this new anthology of twelve fresh, fantasy stories from Pacific Northwest authors, including me! The Planner Experiment Quick recap: I started the Planner Experiment at the beginning of the year with the intention to find homes for all my stories by learning more aboutContinue reading “The Planner Experiment: First Week of June”
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The Planner Experiment: Final Week of May and Finding Poetry
I prepared the pages early this week and then spaced posting them yesterday, sorry. 2019 Planner May Week Five Last Week I finally typed up the ten unpublished poems from NaPoWriMo. I’m letting them sit a bit before I edit them. At the moment I’m not as excited about them as I had hoped toContinue reading “The Planner Experiment: Final Week of May and Finding Poetry”
The Planner Experiment: May Week Four
Most of this week’s magazine submission ideas came from New Pages. New Pages Call for Submissions pages can let you know about brand new magazines and other interesting markets. It can be fun to be one of the first writer’s published in a magazine. I’m excited about Alien Magazine, a new literary magazine coming outContinue reading “The Planner Experiment: May Week Four”
The Planner Experiment: May Week Three – New idea for writing prompts
Finding writing prompts in old movies The other day, while thinking about which classic monster I wanted to put in space for the Monsters in Space anthology, I remembered I have a copy of Little Shop of Horrors, the black and white, non-musical with Jack Nicholson. I also needed to come up with some writingContinue reading “The Planner Experiment: May Week Three – New idea for writing prompts”
The Planner Experiment: May Week 2
My new focus on contests brought me to something fun. Literary Taxidermy is having a contest in which participants write a story that starts and ends with lines from a selected work. This year’s selection is Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. The idea of the contest is to start with the first line of Mr.Continue reading “The Planner Experiment: May Week 2”
The Planner Project Continues into May
2019 Planner May Week One The Experiment For readers who are new to Experience Writing, thank you for being here. These free daily planner pages are part of an experiment I started at the beginning of the year. I wanted to get ahead of the submissions game and know about deadlines in advance, so IContinue reading “The Planner Project Continues into May”
The Planner Experiment: The last days of April
Here we are at the final days of April. Since the month ends on a Tuesday, I went ahead and added the last couple days. For these pages, I decided to take a look at Submittable and look at journals with deadlines at the end of April and beginning of May that do not chargeContinue reading “The Planner Experiment: The last days of April”
The Planner Experiment: Fickle Spring
This week spring sprung, pounced really. We raced from snow to Seattle summer weather with speed that could induce spine-snapping whiplash. The cherry plum trees in my yard went from bare to full blossom in forty-eight hours. I woke up one morning and found myself instinctively picking things up and putting them away everywhere IContinue reading “The Planner Experiment: Fickle Spring”
The Planner Pages: Changing course
The Experiment This month is flying by and I have very few submissions to show for it. My main issue is trying to read enough of each journal to get a feel for it and then when I’ve spent so much time reading the journal, I decide I don’t have a story that fits. I’veContinue reading “The Planner Pages: Changing course”
The Planner Experiment: March Week Two
While I worked through the week’s pages, I came across an error. The dates for Pseudopod’s reading period are 3/15-3/31. The good news is we didn’t miss out. I will try to be more careful. I’m glad I have a story that I want to send to Pseudopod, so I noticed the error. I foundContinue reading “The Planner Experiment: March Week Two”
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