Archive for the ‘LaShawn's Work’ Category
13
Oct
Posted by LaShawn in Genre: Fantasy, LaShawn's Work, Short Stories, Writing. Tagged: "Lavender and Chamomile", Big Pulp, fantasy, LaShawn M. Wanak, publishing news, short story. 1 Comment
Took a little while, but I finally got this short story sold. It’s up and running at Big Pulp Magazine.
The foundation to this story came back when Daniel was still a baby. One of the many toys he got was the quintessential teddy bear, complete with glassy eyes and button nose. One day, I was [...]
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28
Jul
Posted by LaShawn in LaShawn's Work, Weeping of the Willows, Writing. Tagged: Writing, writing life. Leave a Comment
So this week is the last week of the boy’s summer school. Can’t believe six weeks went by so quickly. It’s a good thing I used all that time to focus exclusively on Willow…
…oh, wait. No I didn’t. Truth is, I did not work on Willow at all.
You see, back in June, I was working [...]
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14
May
Posted by LaShawn in LaShawn's Work, Weeping of the Willows, Writing. Tagged: fantasy, Odyssey Podcast, revisions, status update, Writers of the Future, Writing. 2 Comments
It’s been about three months now since I started the second full rewrite of Willow. And today, I just started working on Chapter Five. That means that so far, I’ve been spending roughly 3 weeks on each chapter, instead of just one week like I thought. At this rate, I won’t be finished with Willow [...]
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24
Mar
Posted by LaShawn in LaShawn's Work, Weeping of the Willows, Writing Conferences. Tagged: Adventures in SciFi Publishing, Odyssey Con, Shaun Farrell, Wiscon, work, Writers of the Future, Writing, writing goals. Leave a Comment
Another bunch of links for you. I’m finding it easier to squeeze these kind of posts in between writing and real life.
First, an update on Willow: going slow, but I expected that to happen. I want the first three chapters of this book to really pull readers in, so I’m taking my time to make [...]
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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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26
Jan
Posted by LaShawn in LaShawn's Work, Short Stories, Writing. Tagged: flash fiction, Writing, writing advice, writing goals. 1 Comment
I’m almost a week away from officially working on my Weeping of the Willows edits.
I look at the past couple of weeks, and I’m glad that I’ve given myself a month to rest. If you’ve been following me on Facebook the past couple of weeks, you’ve noticed I mentioned entering a Flash Fiction contest 8 [...]
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13
Jan
Posted by LaShawn in LaShawn's Work, Short Stories, Weeping of the Willows, Writing. Tagged: 2009 resolutions, goals, personal, resolutions, Writing. Leave a Comment
Yayyy! I get to start off 2009 by setting up my goals again. Hooray!
Just think–around this time last year, I had no clue what the year would be like. My hubby and I had just started working on our house, stripping out the carpet and painting the walls, while we interviewed real estate agents who [...]
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6
Jan
Posted by LaShawn in LaShawn's Work, Weeping of the Willows, Writing. Leave a Comment
Well, I’m back! Did you have a good Christmas holiday? I sure did. Lots of rest and relaxation. It was pretty nice.
Oh, by the way. I finished with my readthrough of Willow.
It rocks considering that I didn’t think I’d be done with it until the end of January. Then again, it sucks because I [...]
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17
Dec
Posted by LaShawn in Daniel, LaShawn's Work, Writing, Writing Musings. Tagged: Christmas, hiatus, personal, Writing. 1 Comment
So if I was Daniel a couple of years from now, I’d be like, “Wait a minute. We live about an hour away from Wisconsin Dells, with all the water parks and rides and fun, fun, fun…and we can go up anytime we want, and you didn’t tell me? Why aren’t we up there EVERY [...]
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1
Dec
Posted by LaShawn in LaShawn's Work, Short Stories, Writing. Tagged: revisions, Short Stories, Writing, writing drafts. Leave a Comment
Welcome back. Did you have a good Thanksgiving? Eat too much turkey? Ended up snoring in front of a televised…er…digitized football game?
Me? I just got back from visiting family. Seems there’s a little side effect in moving to Madison called “travel”. As in, we get to “travel” to visit family now. We “travel” two hours [...]
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