On Friday at LTUE, I'm giving a presentation on writing short fiction. I'm not going to have a computer at LTUE (well, probably not), so I thought I'd put this up in advance.
EXAMPLES:
“The Judge’s Right Hand” by J.S. Bangs
“Rejiggering the Thingamajig” by Eric James Stone
“X Marks the Spot” by Kat Otis
UNIQUE POV/VOICE:
“Movement”
by Nancy Fulda
“Un
Opera Nello Spazio: A Space Opera” by Oliver Buckram (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction Sept/Oct 2013)
“The Wanderers” by Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam
“They’re Made Out of Meat” by Terry Bisson
“Regarding Your Unexpected Visit to the Surface of an Apparently Only Mostly Uninhabited Planet” by Sylvia Spruck Wrigley
“Demonic Summoning, Ratings and Reviews” by Simon Kewin
“How to Love a Necromancer” by Jess Hyslop
DIFFERENT PLOT STRUCTURE/ENDING:
“Buy You a Mocking Bird” by Eric James Stone
“The Litigation Master and the Monkey King” by Ken Liu
“Neighbours”
by Rob Butler
“Dark Swans” by Terra LeMay
“The Last Seed” by Ken Liu
“What
We Ourselves Are Not” by Leah Cypess (Asimov's September 2013)
RESOURCES:
Critters.org: an online critiquing workshop
The Leading Edge: local SF/F magazine where you can volunteer to read slush and learn more about how magazines operate -- invaluable opportunity if you live in Provo
The Submission Grinder: a searching tool to find short story markets
SFWA Markets: a list of markets that count towards SFWA membership
*Lamely, Blogger explodes when I try to add the authors' names as labels, due to the length. Sigh. I apologize that there aren't author tags on this post.
I wonder, would you want to come talk about writing YA or short stories on an Authors Advisory call? I'm wanting to start those back up again now that Life has calmed down a bit.
ReplyDeleteI'd be happy to talk about either. I'm glad to hear things are calming down for you.
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