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Writing tidbits

vrflash, June 22, 2017

Serial monogamy: don’t be married to your first novel. Be married to the first, second…

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Condensed to Flash: World Classics

vrflash, June 20, 2017June 20, 2017

The Vestal Review Press is pleased to present the newly expanded edition of    Condensed to…

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New stories in Akashic Press

vrflash, June 20, 2017

“Coercion” and “Rent.”  

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Rejections 2.1

vrflash, May 24, 2017

Publications reject your stories not because they are bad, but because the competition is better….

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2017

vrflash, January 5, 2017

A Soviet educational movie “2017” shot in 1960. Bering Strait will be closed by a…

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How to sell your words

vrflash, December 29, 2016

It’s not important what or how well you write but who you are. Names sell…

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Story ideas

vrflash, December 29, 2016

The story ideas are like blood cells: they come to life until you die.

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Am I bright?

vrflash, November 23, 2016

Someone called me “bright.” I replied that my brightness is an optical illusion.

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baby book

vrflash, September 20, 2016

My twin granddaughters, 5 months old now (but adjusted to 3 since they were born…

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A new story

vrflash, August 3, 2016

Just wrote a story. I was laughing out loud when I was writing it. I…

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