Oct. 13th, 2006

Horror Day

Oct. 13th, 2006 11:48 am
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Yes, it’s Horror Day, Friday the 13th of October 2006. And to
celebrate, Martin Livings and Stephanie Gunn have co-edited what could
only be described as the literary equivalent of a flash mob, assembled
in less than a day for your enjoyment!

So now, without further ado, the Horror Day Anthology is now available
for viewing. It will be online from 12:01am on Friday the 13th of
October, GMT+1200, until 11:59pm that same day, GMT-1200, a total of 48
hours, all of which is Horror Day… well, somewhere in the world!
Fifteen stories from a wide variety of authors, all absolutely free to
view, if only for a day or two.

The stories are:

– “untitled”, Brendan Carson
– “Your Own Light-Hearted Friend”, Stephen Dedman
– “Daddy”, Stephanie Gunn
– “Inchoate: Night Memories”, Robert Hood
– “Silence”, Martin Livings
– “Chocolate”, Robbie Matthews
– “The New Religion”, Brett McBean
– “Chrysalis”, Chuck McKenzie
– “Nothing to Fear”, Nigel Read
– “Overheard on a train?”, Rhidian Rhead
– “Touched”, David Schembri
– “The Angler”, Mark Smith
– “The Ice Bride”, Cat Sparks
– “Skating on Thin Ice”, Matthew Tait
– “Dirty Washing”, Marty Young

The anthology is located here:

http://horrorday.martinlivings.com

Come and check them out. Tell your friends. Spread the word. And,
most of all, enjoy!

Mirrored from Stephanie Gunn.

Horror Day

Oct. 13th, 2006 11:48 am
azhure: (Default)

Yes, it’s Horror Day, Friday the 13th of October 2006. And to
celebrate, Martin Livings and Stephanie Gunn have co-edited what could
only be described as the literary equivalent of a flash mob, assembled
in less than a day for your enjoyment!

So now, without further ado, the Horror Day Anthology is now available
for viewing. It will be online from 12:01am on Friday the 13th of
October, GMT+1200, until 11:59pm that same day, GMT-1200, a total of 48
hours, all of which is Horror Day… well, somewhere in the world!
Fifteen stories from a wide variety of authors, all absolutely free to
view, if only for a day or two.

The stories are:

– “untitled”, Brendan Carson
– “Your Own Light-Hearted Friend”, Stephen Dedman
– “Daddy”, Stephanie Gunn
– “Inchoate: Night Memories”, Robert Hood
– “Silence”, Martin Livings
– “Chocolate”, Robbie Matthews
– “The New Religion”, Brett McBean
– “Chrysalis”, Chuck McKenzie
– “Nothing to Fear”, Nigel Read
– “Overheard on a train?”, Rhidian Rhead
– “Touched”, David Schembri
– “The Angler”, Mark Smith
– “The Ice Bride”, Cat Sparks
– “Skating on Thin Ice”, Matthew Tait
– “Dirty Washing”, Marty Young

The anthology is located here:

http://horrorday.martinlivings.com

Come and check them out. Tell your friends. Spread the word. And,
most of all, enjoy!

Mirrored from Stephanie Gunn.

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New words: 2,059 words on Thought and Memory.
Total words: 71,100l on Thought and Memory.
Reason for stopping: Seriously out of mental energy.
Exercise : Walked 30 minutes
Other work: Nothing, caught up on other work at present.
Reading: Jacqueline Carey’s Kushiel’s Avatar.

So, no writing yesterday. That’s the tough thing for me – sometimes life intervenes with the work. And in my case, since I have a limited amount of energy on any given day, if I’ve used it up doing other things, I can’t burn the midnight oil catching up.

Back to it today, and it feels like more than a week since I touched this story. I’m still mulling over in my head how best to structure it when I go back and rewrite. It’s too confusing at the moment, and it needs to be simplified.

Which brings me to my next point. This is my first foray into multiple points of view in a work this length. I need to research by reading books that do this well?

Any thoughts and suggestions?

Note – comments on the LJ feed are NOT received. You have to comment over at the real site :)

Mirrored from Stephanie Gunn.

azhure: (Default)

New words: 2,059 words on Thought and Memory.
Total words: 71,100l on Thought and Memory.
Reason for stopping: Seriously out of mental energy.
Exercise : Walked 30 minutes
Other work: Nothing, caught up on other work at present.
Reading: Jacqueline Carey’s Kushiel’s Avatar.

So, no writing yesterday. That’s the tough thing for me – sometimes life intervenes with the work. And in my case, since I have a limited amount of energy on any given day, if I’ve used it up doing other things, I can’t burn the midnight oil catching up.

Back to it today, and it feels like more than a week since I touched this story. I’m still mulling over in my head how best to structure it when I go back and rewrite. It’s too confusing at the moment, and it needs to be simplified.

Which brings me to my next point. This is my first foray into multiple points of view in a work this length. I need to research by reading books that do this well?

Any thoughts and suggestions?

Note – comments on the LJ feed are NOT received. You have to comment over at the real site :)

Mirrored from Stephanie Gunn.

On editors

Oct. 13th, 2006 08:16 pm
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One of the most underappreciated jobs in the world of writing/publishing is the editor.

I say this from the point of view of a writer. I pretended to be an editor for a day for the Horror Day anthology, and probably got no more than a 0.001% peek into the real work that goes on.

I’ve been lucky to work with some fantastic editors who really get into the process of it all, as well as some who don’t seem to do much of anything. I’m not naming names, so no guessing who’s who.

Along with the cringingly-bad grammar and spelling mistakes that creep in, a good editor will also find ways to make your story better – to have more emotional impact, to deliver more than you had originally envisaged. A good editor can make a good story great.

There are some authors who need precious little editing. I can immediately think of a few in the local scene, but they have had many years of experience in publishing their work. They know what works in the realm of saleable fiction.

Many of us don’t have that experience. I’ve only been writing full-time for six months. Most of my work before then was written in the scraps of time between studying and life. I always had other things going on in my head – namely uni work and the PhD – which, I never felt, gave the writing enough brain-RAM to run on.

I’m lucky, being able to write full-time. In the respect of having no other job than running the household, that is. I wouldn’t choose the way this came about (illness that disabled me legally), but I also wouldn’t unchoose it for the world.

I went and read through all of my old shorts a few days ago. Realised just how undeveloped some of them are, and duly trunked them. Anything that had any merit at all got sent out to a new market.

Speaking of good editors, I’ve heard back from one market already. An editor who passed for now, but provided very, very good reasons for why, all of which I agreed with.

This brings me to another point that’s been coming up on LJ of late – people who argue with rejection letters. I will never understand this. An editor has taken the time to suggest what some of the shortcomings of your work might be, and you argue with them? All it does is earn you a blackballing. My suggestion? Have a yell or a cry if you need to, then tuck that rejection letter away for a week, a month, a year. Come back then with more experience under your belt and assess it. I bet you’ll see that they’re right.

So basically, I have a great admiration for editors. I really do. Without them, that magazine, anthology or book wouldn’t be in your hands, and I bet it wouldn’t be as good. We’re damn lucky to have some fine editors in this country who are working for nothing. Give them some kudos for it.

Mirrored from Stephanie Gunn.

On editors

Oct. 13th, 2006 08:16 pm
azhure: (Default)

One of the most underappreciated jobs in the world of writing/publishing is the editor.

I say this from the point of view of a writer. I pretended to be an editor for a day for the Horror Day anthology, and probably got no more than a 0.001% peek into the real work that goes on.

I’ve been lucky to work with some fantastic editors who really get into the process of it all, as well as some who don’t seem to do much of anything. I’m not naming names, so no guessing who’s who.

Along with the cringingly-bad grammar and spelling mistakes that creep in, a good editor will also find ways to make your story better – to have more emotional impact, to deliver more than you had originally envisaged. A good editor can make a good story great.

There are some authors who need precious little editing. I can immediately think of a few in the local scene, but they have had many years of experience in publishing their work. They know what works in the realm of saleable fiction.

Many of us don’t have that experience. I’ve only been writing full-time for six months. Most of my work before then was written in the scraps of time between studying and life. I always had other things going on in my head – namely uni work and the PhD – which, I never felt, gave the writing enough brain-RAM to run on.

I’m lucky, being able to write full-time. In the respect of having no other job than running the household, that is. I wouldn’t choose the way this came about (illness that disabled me legally), but I also wouldn’t unchoose it for the world.

I went and read through all of my old shorts a few days ago. Realised just how undeveloped some of them are, and duly trunked them. Anything that had any merit at all got sent out to a new market.

Speaking of good editors, I’ve heard back from one market already. An editor who passed for now, but provided very, very good reasons for why, all of which I agreed with.

This brings me to another point that’s been coming up on LJ of late – people who argue with rejection letters. I will never understand this. An editor has taken the time to suggest what some of the shortcomings of your work might be, and you argue with them? All it does is earn you a blackballing. My suggestion? Have a yell or a cry if you need to, then tuck that rejection letter away for a week, a month, a year. Come back then with more experience under your belt and assess it. I bet you’ll see that they’re right.

So basically, I have a great admiration for editors. I really do. Without them, that magazine, anthology or book wouldn’t be in your hands, and I bet it wouldn’t be as good. We’re damn lucky to have some fine editors in this country who are working for nothing. Give them some kudos for it.

Mirrored from Stephanie Gunn.

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