Julia’s Writing

I just finished a short zombie story called “Getting Gas”.  The first draft is 1,208 words.  I know writing a zombie story is probably cliche at this point, but you have to understand that zombies terrify me, so writing this story was no small task.  Anyway, next I have to do some edits and give [...]

Okay, I finally got some writing done.  I got feedback on Desperation from my first reader (who shall remain nameless…)  and I finished the edits.   It is now an 1,820  word short story.  I am going to submit it to Writers of the Future.  Cross your fingers and wish me luck.  I get so [...]

This is off topic from my writing progress, I know, but I wanted to make a quick digression.  I recently was asked to review a book on my book review blog. I snapped up the opportunity to help a fellow writer, but when reading the story I discovered I didn’t really enjoy it. It was [...]

So the word count for Desperation went up to 1,961.  I’ve finished all copy edits and story edits and I’m giving it to my first reader.   The plan with this story is to send it along to Writers of the Future.  I might change the title though, because the ending changed… but maybe not.  We’ll [...]

So, today I wrote a 1,703 word short story.   It’s a Sci Fi story with the working title of Desparation.  I really shouldn’t say I wrote it today.  I actually started it about five days ago, but I’ve been working on it, editing and refining ideas since then.  Today I finally typed it up.

I’m going to start using this blog to track my word count and progress with my writing.  I have several projects I’m working on.  They are: – Editing my fantasy novel – Editing several short stories and then submitting them – Completing a short story – Outlining a new novel – Starting a semi-collaborative work [...]

It’s Nanowrimo and I have done exactly zero work on my novel.  Ugh!  I did get a notice from one of my submissions yesterday – a story called Child’s Play.  They rejected it due to content.  It was cool, because it was my first personalized rejection and they asked for more work – just on [...]

I had my writing week, which was kind of a bust since I was uber busy with horror month on my other blog. BUT I did get some stuff done – a couple shorts have been submitted to magazines and I’m still plugging away on the novel. So, all is not lost. Oh, also, Happy [...]

I am taking a week off work from October 6th through the 10th and dedicating it to getting myself organized and getting myself writing.   I’m going to blog each day about what I’ve accomplished and any goals I still have to accomplish. Now, since this is going to be a strange week and a big [...]

Do artists really need to suffer for their work? A favorite website of mine, graphjam seems to think so. more graph humor and song chart memes But seriously, do we need to suffer or starve to be artistic? I think that’s a stereotype. I mean, is JK Rowling suffering? Probably not.