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Happy New Year 2012
It’s that time of year again,
When we sit down to make a new writing plan,
When we look at last year’s successes and failures,
When we sit word count goals,
When we look at last year’s plots and characters,
Decide how to rewrite their stories and lives.
It’s that time of year again,
Time to kick our science fiction and fantasy plots
Into high gear.
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A New Year is a mixed blessing. It is time to look at the accomplishments and failure of the preceding twelve months. I purposely put accomplishments first in the last paragraph because we usually look at our failures before we look at our successes (accomplishments) and pat ourselves on the back.
As writers, we have to know why one story is a success and another remains unpublished or in eternal rewrite. The first step to making a story a success is having something to compare it to and to do this we have to know why a publisher accepts one story for publication or rewriting and another does not. Therefore, we have to analyze our success and then our failures.
While we often learn more from our failures then our successes, we have to know why something failed. In order to know why one article or story failed we have to know why a similar article succeeded so that we have a comparison. Sometimes a written item fails because of internal mechanics of the item and at other times it is operator error i.e. is there something about ourselves we need to change.
It is a New Year and time to make new resolutions. It is time to look at last year’s successes and failures, so that we can determine where we want our writing to go this year. It is also time to start something new such as a story, poem, journal, characters, science fiction or fantasy plot. Write on in 2012.
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Stories and Poems
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Excerpt: He struggled to remain awake;
he fought the need to doze.
He felt himself begin to shake
as eyes began to close.
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Excerpt: James stood on the podium next to the stranger and waited...
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Excerpt: South of his lofty position in Tempest stations observation tower, Kane De Souza observed a vast cyclonic column of dust drifting across the Syria Planum...
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Excerpt: Long ago, ere many centuries to present, there lived three children. The eldest a boy, second a girl and another girl several years below each. These children had not any family to call their own, for even they were not of same blood. Howsoever, they each cared for the two others as if kin....
Excerpt: You're about to drone on
Mindless, through the motions
Submitted to the Newsletter
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Excerpt: “Here we are in a rare interview with Zena, the legendary leader of the Wild Beasts.”
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