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National Novel Writing Month and YOU!

2NovemberLynnNovels, real life, Short Stories, writingcommunity, fiction, nanowrimo, nanowrimo2020, shortstories

Today is the second day of Nanowrimo, which means that by midnight tonight, I should have somewhere in the neighborhood of… math, math, math… 3,334 words. That’s all of my stories for the Storytime Blog Hop next year, and a solid start on something a little more serious to submit for publication. Obviously, this post

IWSG: Writing Surprises

7AugustLynn7 CommentswritingIWSG, publishing, shortstories, surprises, writers groups

The awesome co-hosts for the August 7 posting of the IWSG are Renee Scattergood, Sadira Stone, Jacqui Murray, Tamara Narayan, and LG Keltner! I’ve been chipping away at the megalith that is my writing bullet journal this month. Dissecting the one I have now to improve on the next one. It’s a system that–overall–has been

Look, I Found A Chance To Win A Trip To Japan

23AugustLynnUncategorizedamwriting, fiction, shortstories

So, I found–a little late, there are three days until the deadline, including today–a short story contest in which the prize includes a trip to Japan. Here’s the link to the story in Wired: https://www.wired.com/beyond-the-beyond/2017/06/seat-14c-jets-future/ And here’s the link to the contest, itself: http://www.seat14c.com I’m not sure if I’m going to get something written in

The Past Tastes Better

26JulyLynn15 CommentsShort Stories, writingfantasy, fiction, scifi, shortstories, storytimebloghop

The Past Tastes Better Ninety-nine times out of a hundred, my job is nothing. Forty or fifty years, or in rare cases, seventy, but never much more. A quick nip in time, back to some church dinner or Bar Mitzvah to pick up gramma’s secret recipe—whatever it happened to be—and back to collect the check.

StoryTime Blog Hop: Your Invitation

28JuneLynnBlogging, Short Storiesamwriting, bloghop, shortstories, storytimebloghop

We’re a little less than a month out from the next StoryTime Blog Hop, and I’m actually getting the invitation out in time that everyone has an actual opportunity to write a short story. The deadline for links is July 20, this time around, and the Fabulous Juneta Key will be hosting (again. Because she’s

The Contract

13JuneLynn2 CommentsUncategorizedamwriting, fiction, shortstories, TuesdayBookBlogs

He caught up with her after lunch, outside the restaurant where they’d had their first date. He’d scraped together a little cash–enough for a drink or two–but he was relieved when he didn’t have to spend it. His last job had been a while. “Well?” he asked. Kathy shifted her weight. “Well, what?” she said.

True Self

2JuneLynn2 CommentsShort Stories, writingfantasy, fiction, shortstories

I don’t know why I took the pills. It wasn’t smart. Just a moment of try-anything desperation, and a gulp of water, and two slightly luminous capsules the size of castor beans went sliding down my throat. Half a second after I swallowed, I decided to put my finger down my throat. That was the

StoryTime Blog Hop: An Invitation

11MarchLynnBlogging, writingblogging, fiction, shortstories, storytimebloghop

The StoryTime Blog Hop is a hop for Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Speculative fiction writers to show off their short stories. While it’s not specifically aimed at children, we do avoid adult content for this one. The amazing Juneta Key has been suckered into hosting graciously volunteered to host this month’s hop yet again, and

The Short Stories I Didn’t Intend to Write

11FebruaryLynn2 CommentsShort Storiesamwriting, goals, shortstories

I’m working on a short story. It’s the kind of thing that’s only very, very vaguely science-fiction, and it’s longer than most of the things I’ve done for the blog. It also has a very different tone. It’s the kind of year when everything connects to everything else, whether you want it to, or not.

The Poisoner of Time

24JanuaryLynn19 CommentsShort Storiesfiction, scifi, shortstories, storytimebloghop

It was nearly midnight before the first fatal drops splattered from the rattling still. The old woman checked the door, but she was alone. Her husband was long since in bed, the cat was locked safely in the cellar, and the most lethal poison in the world was gathering in the bottom of one of

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The Contract

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True Self

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