Rules. Know them. Love them. Hate them. But they're still there staring you in the face every time you sit down to write. So in the spirit of knowing the rules here are a few links to some rules, old and new, just to remind you of what you should know before you set out to be a writer of short stories. A big tip of the hat to Michael Bracken for the first two.
http://scribblingseaserpent.blogspot.com/2009/04/what-makes-good-short-story.html
http://theelephantinthewritingroom.blogspot.com/2009/10/short-story-getting-started.html
http://wisb.blogspot.com/2009/10/ten-things-no-writer-should-ever-do.html
Now that we've gotten the rules out of the way, here are a few things that might tickle your fancy today.
The fourth issue of Sex and Murder has gone live. http://sexandmurder.com/
Crimespree Magazine has opened for submission through the end of this month. http://www.crimespreemag.com/
Fried Fiction is now a paying market. They publish serial stories and pay $25 for the first installment. http://www.friedfiction.com/
And Rafe McGregor has an interview up with Sean Chercover. http://rafemcgregor.blogspot.com/ Chercover is one hell of a short story writer, which made this interview a must read for me. His short "One Serving of Bad Luck" won the CWA Short Story Dagger award this year and "A Sleep Not Unlike Death" won an Anthony Award. And yeah, his novel, "Trigger City" just blew me away when I read it this year. If I could write like that, I'd die one happy old lady.
3 comments:
Chercover's "A Sleep Not Unlike Death" was hands down in a class by itself. Before a writer submits a story anywhere they should read a Sean Chercover story. I do and submit less and what I do send in hopefully enters that Chercover arena. Ok, maybe not. But he's a standard I shoot for.
Thanks for the kind words, guys! Glad to hear you're enjoying my work.
It's always good to have a standard to reach for, David, and Chercover's a great one.
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