23
Feb
Posted by LaShawn in Writing Musings. Tagged: Facebook, online games, procrastination, writing advice, writing burnout, writing drafts. Leave a Comment
I’ve been trying to think of a good blog post to write. It’s been a slow month, writing-wise. The only serious project I’ve been working on is prepping Willow up for the 2nd draft. The past couple of weeks, I’ve been finalizing names, places, histories, backgrounds. I’ve also put up a new word counter, seen [...]
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15
Feb
Posted by LaShawn in Movie Review. Tagged: "The Women", Movie Review, The Agony Booth. 3 Comments
Got another review up at the Agony Booth! It’s a mini-review of "The Women", and it’s picturerific! Go check it out!
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9
Feb
Posted by LaShawn in Book Review. Tagged: Book Review, fiction, literary fiction, Matt Ruff, multiple personality disorder. 1 Comment
The Wiscon book club I attend nowadays is called “Beer and Marmalade” (if you want to hear a little more about it, a couple of members were on WORT Wisconsin radio. Just scroll down to "Radio Literature" that played on January 8, 2009), and we’ve been reading some good stuff. In January, we chose “Set [...]
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4
Feb
Posted by LaShawn in News of the Day, Writing, Writing Musings. Tagged: "The Town Drunk", "Realms of Fantasy", "The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror", publishing news, scifi and fantasy, Short Stories, Writers of the Future, Writing, writing life, writing news. Leave a Comment
So I’ve been doing some thinking. Serious thinking. And I’ve come to a startling revelation.
Realms of Fantasy closing and The Years Best Fantasy & Horror Anthologies no longer being printed? Their ending don’t affect me at all.
It’s startling because I consider them the highest levels a writer can get in writing. When both of them [...]
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1
Feb
Posted by LaShawn in LaShawn's Work, Short Stories, Writing. Tagged: "The Liberation of Roscoe White", African-American fantasy, black fantasy, fantasy, fiction, LaShawn M. Wanak, science fiction, Short Stories, speculative fiction. 1 Comment
Hot dog! A new story of mine is up and running! I like it when I get my stories published!
“The Liberation of Roscoe White” was among one of the first short stories I workshopped with my writers’ group back in Chicago. It’s also the first story I ever wrote that utilizes the “F-word”, or any [...]
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