Housekeeping: Short Stories, Fiction and Fun

I want to thank the people who helped out with my series on short stories, especially those who left comments. I’m going to move on to some other topics now, but I haven’t run out of things to say about short stories so I’ll get back to the subject again soon. Meanwhile, I encourage people to visit my newly revised fiction page, which now includes the short story series, the character building series and my articles about how to revise the first draft of your novel. It also includes my now infamous: Want to Write a Novel Badly? Here’s How!, a collection of some spectacularly bad novel writing advice. Speaking of bad advice, that is my next project. Expect upcoming articles on subjects such as:

• How to annoy the hell out of your writer’s group
• How to write a terrible technical manual
• Adding pretension to your poetry
• How similes are like cheese crisps

I hope you look forward to reading them as badly as I look forward to writing them.

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