Produce, Produce, no not Vegetables
Produce, and produce some more. That has been my motto for the last two months. In this time, I have been heavily focused on cranking out short stories regularly. Some stories are easy to write and some of the ideas take multiple days to produce because of complexity. All I know is that I am seeing massive growth in terms of different skills and a heavy coffee/tea consumption. At this time, I am working on a short story called Like Laika and hoping to push some of the work from July to the website.
As soon as I hear from the places I have submitted, I will post up the new Flash Fiction and Short Story section. Bare with me, I haven’t disappeared or stopped working… I just can’t publish anything until I know someone else won’t.
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I haven’t posted in awhile because of life. At the time, I am running through research (about to finish tomorrow and begin outlining the fourth book). Sadly, I am behind schedule for the new book. In the mean time, I have done a lot of reading (short stories and novels) while submitting some of my shorter work. In my reading, I have noticed an odd trend. Perhaps it is what I am reading, but I feel that most of the work I read is drab. I understand the tones and the importance of what the author is discussing, but I just find their method exhausting. But, I tend to be more interested in work like Vonnegut. His short stories are hugely compelling, but he does set them in an odd “world” because it isn’t present time (I like odd). I don’t know, but I think I pegged why I am perturbed by many contemporary pieces in magazines. My best analysis pins this odd phenomenon to the fact that a lot of the fiction seems like nonfiction. Each of the these stories could be from a nonfiction standpoint, yes the themes are important, but Vonnegut talks about the same themes but in a truly “fiction” way (once again my opinion, I don’t have a degree in literature). I guess, I don’t enjoy reading piece after piece that seems like a memoir or an autobiography. Either way, I should begin hearing from my July submissions – soon. Once I do, I will release a whole new chunk to the website and modify the pages. Look forward to it!
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