Hi gang

My short story No Ball Games, has been accepted for the Feb issue of Twisted Tongue Magazine.

Thanks for everyone who read and commented, mucho appreciated.

JB

Cool!!

Thanks Sarah. I'm closing on that short story collection nail by nail...

JB

Yay! Congratulations!

Well done, JB - that's great!

A
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Short stories flummox me. I have no idea how to write them. I started trying them when I first started writing, but all I could come up with were opening paragraphs.

A short story seems harder to me than a novel. It's like a novel in microcosm, with less time for you as a writer to get to know and develop your characters. And it has to be so minutely structured. I don't know whether I'll ever do it. I was going to try my hand at them between Novel 1 and Novel 2, but I have Novelist's Guilt, which means that when I start a short story, I really feel my time would be better spent on the next novel.

There is a certain nack to them, that's for sure, and I only feel lately that I'm closing on it. Most of my 'short' stories have a tendency to spill over into novellas. More than one has become a novel.

JB

Wonderful news JB, you are so on your way!!

Julie
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Great news, JB, congratulations!

Emma

I remember that one; well done.

Many congratulations!

Great story

Sarah

Thank you everyone. Most kind.

JB

Well done, matey.

Casey