Category: Writing
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What Scifi short stories are free on Gutenberg?
As I continued my quest for free short stories and the best really short stories online, I stumbled across many Scifi short stories that are free on Gutenberg. So what Scifi short stories are free on Gutenberg? These, at least (let me know in the comments if you find more and I’ll add to the…
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Free short stories : where do I find sites for short stories and essays?
Where do I go to find sites for short stories and essays? Free short stories are pretty easy to find on Gutenberg, but the truth is that sometimes you need a curated list rather than just a single search term wading through the public domain sludge. I’ve got you. Here’s the list of the best…
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The best really short stories
Talking through the Robert Sheckley stories made me ponder what the best really short stories might be. They’d need to be the sorts of things you could read in under 15 minutes, preferably in under 10. It would also be skewed towards what I myself have read, which admittedly is significantly less than some of…
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Internet Speculative Fiction Database
Because I was 8 years old when this site was created and because I’m professionally rather new to speculative fiction (I only recently discovered Alfred Bester and Robert Sheckley), I didn’t know about the Internet Speculative Fiction Database. Here’s a look at what it feels like: So it’s just pages and pages of things I…
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Grantville Gazette IV edited by Eric Flint
This review will be short and sweet. I ordered Granville Gazette IV at the prompting of Kerryn and Bjorn Hasseler because of a story I was working on spec for the new 1632 magazine. I think the thing I want to say is that sometimes anthologies like this never quite find their true audience because…
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Book Burning in Fahrenheit 451 what is it about ?
For the first time, I read Ray Bradbury’s classic and I wanted to ponder book burning in Fahrenheit 451 what is it about ? This book isn’t about us, right? It’s about those other people who burn books. Because it’s the book-burning book, right? The one about the people who censor and ban and burn? …
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Pier 11 where Hornblower Waits — a response to Crossing Brooklyn Ferry by Walt Whitman
Pier 11 where Hornblower Waits — a response to Crossing Brooklyn Ferry — comes from The Greenwood Poet, a book that came out last week as part of my ongoing romance with doubling my years on odd years and then writing that many poems. I spent a couple of years, off and on, writing about the…
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Anti Rebellion
Anti Rebellion comes from The Greenwood Poet, a book that came out last week as part of my ongoing romance with doubling my years on odd years and then writing that many poems. I spent a couple of years, off and on, writing about the gothic fantastic and the environment and death, before and after…
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Unconference 2023 — How do I prepare for Writer Unboxed?
As I’m sitting here preparing for the Writer UnBoxed Unconference 2023, I’m realizing that we’re (1) likely taking up several writers from Brooklyn and therefore I’m answering the question (2) How do I prepare for Writer Unboxed? Here’s how I’m preparing: Writer Unboxed Unconference 2023 isn’t a formal con. If you’re expecting the nerdgasm dorkfest…
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Can Wattpad read to you?
Some of you have landed here asking can Wattpad read to you? Yes, but don’t use Speechify. Here’s why: Speechify is impoverishing audiobook narrators, stealing their voices, and using artificial intelligence software to turn works by creators (often without the consent of the creators) into full-blown audiobooks. The audiobook narrator that would have been hired…
