Julia’s Writing

Damn.  I just got a rejection letter from Asimovs on my story “Okay to Disconnect”.   I recently heard about the magazine “Lightspeed”.  I’m gonna check it out and see if I should submit my story there…

I’m heading out of Bandon, OR right now and have about 20 mins to check out, so I’ll make this brief.
It’s the last day of my journey – I’m going to land in Portland today and there I shall stay… until July when I drive down to LA.
Anyway, I saw my horoscope and it seemed [...]

I know, I have hoards of fans hanging on my every word, so the recent silence of my blog has been horrifying.  It’s made everyone wonder, “Has Julia perhaps been eaten by zombies? Been swallowed by one of her own creations that pulled itself out of the computer to exact vengance upon the one who [...]

Let’s get the bad news out of the way first: My story “Fantasy Cabin” has been rejected from Writer’s of the Future. *SOB* *Sniff, Sniff*
So… I’m looking around for another market which might like it.  I’m also going to go through it and give it a little revamp to see if there’s anything else that [...]

Okay, this is just a quick update since I really should be writing.
I wrote some more on my book last week, but I mostly rewrote a short story called “There’s an Alien in my Bedroom”.  I think it’s pretty awesome, and I kinda wrote it for the Drabblecast, but I need to edit it as [...]

Here’s another short story for your enjoyment.  This one needs no warning, anyone can read it.  It’s called Writer’s Block.  This is a fantasy story with a literal take on Writer’s Block.  It was written by me – Julia Scott-Douglas.  It’s one of my few looks at quasi-surrealism.  Let me know if it works for [...]

This is a story meant for adults only.
If you cannot read about cannibalism, violence and other disturbing topics, don’t read this story.  If you do not shop in the adult section of the book store, don’t read this story.  If you hate Stephen King or Scott Sigler because they are too gruesome, don’t read this [...]

Nobody has ever asked me where I get my ideas, so this is simply mental masturbation. But, I do think about where I get my ideas from, because sometimes they make me smile and sometimes they just freak me out.
Usually I like to say most of my ideas are inspired by authors I admire, which [...]

Last week I had goals.  Did I make them? Haha, hehe, hoho. Er… short answer? No.
Long answer, here’s where I’m at (for anyone who cares to know):
Word count on my YA novel: 12,307.  I wrote a little over a thousand words on it this weekend.  Ouch.
I did, however, complete editing my picture book (which, I [...]

I did some writing over the weekend and tonight.  My word count on my YA novel is now at 11,137.  Not bad.  30,000-40,000 words to go.
My goals this week are to get the word count on the YA up to 15,000, to complete editing my picture book and send it to various readers (again), to [...]