Writing for Blogs Not Your Own

Blog Stuff, Writing
I dream of someday making a living from my fiction. This blog is about that dream and how I'm going to reach it. Unfortunately, there are a hundred writers for every fiction market, and so far, my fiction hasn't seen the light of day. Instead, I've found my early successes in the realm of non-fiction: from September to December I worked as a youth blogger for Now Hear This, I've written articles and interviewed authors for Penumbra during my internship, and just this Friday I had my first real guest post(as in the first one I queried myself) published at My Name is Not Bob. All of these non-fiction experiences have been a lot of fun, and I've learned something from each of them. Most importantly, I've learned that I…
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Introducing Penumbra

Reading Related, Short Fiction, Writing, Writing
Ordinarily my first post after the end of November would be something about what to do now that you've written your Nanovel, and while that post is coming, this year it's been made to wait. That's because I would like to introduce you to the other project I've been working on all month, the Penumbra eMagazine. Penumbra is the speculative fiction eMagazine run by Musa Publishing, the ebook publisher I've been interning with for the past three months. Since late October, I have been working with a team made up of all of Musa's interns to make December's issue of Penumbra the very best that it can be. It's been an amazing journey from raw story files to a polished and professional emagazine. Throughout the month we worked together to…
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