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Villain, I have DONE thy mother
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Traditional Publishing or Indie Publishing?

Publishing Week So you want to publish your book? In this day and age, usually the next question is: should you go Traditional or Indie? It's a hard question to answer but I think it's something that only each individual can decide for themselves. I decided to go Indie after several tries over ten years of submitting my manuscript to publishers, getting feedback, re-writing the book and then submitting again. Over and over the feedback was that because my work wasn't mainstream science fiction that the publishers weren't prepared to take the risk. I came to a point where I realised that I needed to decide if I wanted to keep trying to get

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knocking on rotten wood

i dream just come alight, let your smile be static bristling across the bearded sky/                      a sparrow bumps into my bulletproof glass, a fly is trapped in-between. the tree cracked and was removed by the morning    like this you wake up groggy with an amputated limb                                 no recollection of the present; dumbly watch the crests of folded sheet gyri                                         pass and settle like the lead they put in our water,                   like the ticking of taxes,                          the pointless tests at a monthly check-up; we were once ripe bumblebees, we were be

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A Week Apart

Personal Nearly all of last week was spent at my parents house - I needed to get away from home for a bit. At first I just wanted the endless enchiladas at the Mexican place near them, then it ended up as nearly a week-long stay. Mom and I were picking up Mary Ellen to go to Conway that weekend anyway, so it didn't make much sense for me to keep going back and forth. My dad got me into a show called The Blacklist while I was there, and I've since finished the first season. I haven't picked up a new TV show in a long time. I tried to find the second season at the library since it's not on Netflix yet, but no luck. I picked up some books inst

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New Contest! (closed)

EDIT: Contest closed! Thanks to everyone who participated, I'll work on picking the winners soon! Expect at least a week's delay due to all the entries. I'll get it up as soon as I can! :D EDIT: Last day to enter! Anyone who has put a piece into the contest should double-check and make sure it's posted at the bottom of this journal. I wouldn't want to miss anyone! And if you're planning on entering before time's up, get going! c: EDIT: Less than a week left to join! EDIT: There's about two weeks left to enter in a piece! I'd love to see more entries here, especially because the ones I've gotten are so wonderful. If you're wanting to join t

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