Anyone got tips about pacing in #writing #shortstories ?

And the winners of the British Fantasy awards are being announced on Saturday evening. The shortlist contains some stunning work by Eliza Chan, Shona Kinsella and James Bennett and I'll be genuinely delighted whoever wins.

#sciencefiction #fantasy #shortstories #britishfantasyawards

My British Science Fiction Association and British Fantasy awards nominated short story, A Moment Of Zugzwang, was originally published in the digital magazine, ParSec. If you missed it first time around, it's being published this week in the best of anthology, ParSec In Print

tinyurl.com/mw4ndpht

If you're at Fantasycon in Birmingham this weekend there's a PS Publishing launch event at 5pm. Feel free to drop in, have a complimentary drinky and grab a copy.

#sciencefiction #shortstories

This sharp-edged beauty of a story, "A Scarcity of Sharks" by Kelsea Yu, is now free to read at @ReckoningMag.

https://reckoning.press/a-scarcity-of-sharks/

#amreading #sff #shortstories #climate #biodiversity

On the Fictionable #podcast Donal McLaughlin talks #fiction, #memoir and colourful language, and insists his main character is not him.

Catch it at https://fictionable.world or via #ApplePodcasts #Spotify #Acast and more …

#books #reading #writing #translation #comics #ShortStories #interview @bookstodon

** Requesting Advice **
What high-impact techniques have you used to promote/market your #SerialFiction?

Context: not well-known or well-read author.

#SerializedFiction #Episodic #ShortStory #ShortStories #AmWriting #Writing #Writer

Suddenly, we were in a different world.
A beauteous castle stood erect in the distance, and a lovely melody erupted from inside the building.
All the citizens in this magical world seemed to be peaceful.
No quarrelling, no havoc, no aggression. Only peace.
Just as I started to consider staying there, it flashed upon me that nobody was happy.
How did I ever think the music was lovely? It was haunting.
The ominous melody intensified.
The castle lost its glamour, and there was no longer peace.
The magic Regime had done a good job hiding its true nature...

#TootFic #ShortStories #MicroFiction

Latest blog post:
How Short Stories Created a Nation

There are so many good reasons to write short stories, but I stumbled into an additional benefit: They're an easy way to explore a new world.

From there, they also influenced my novel writing process.

#AmWriting #WritingCommunity #Writing #Writers #Fiction #WritersOfMastodon #ShortStories #Worldbuilding

https://christinahawthorne.wordpress.com/2023/09/07/how-short-stories-created-a-nation/

ICYMI, I had a new historical fantasy short-short story published this week at @bcsmagazine :

https://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/holding-back-the-darkness/

You can read it free online or listen to it as a podcast narrated by MK Hobson!

#fantasy #ShortStories

I always wanted to write a #shortstory, and here it finally is! I'm quite proud of how it turned out.

It's inspired by Lovecraftian #horror stories, mixed with some personal beliefs about digital media.

https://garrit.xyz/posts/2023-09-10-short-story-haunted-memories

Yes, I used #AI to help with the storytelling. I hope that doesn't spoil the fun of reading it. 😉

This is post 076 of #100DaysToOffload.

Also: #writing #shortstories

#WritersCoffeeClub 9: have you ever abandoned a #writing project?

All the time, though it's mostly down to my neurological issues, where I start things but rarely finish. In recent times, however, the only things I've finished were #ShortStories for my #A215 and #A111 assignments.

#AmWriting #WritingCommunity #OpenUniversity #neurodivergence #CreativeWriting

New Fiction Friday remediates "A Lot Full of Weeds" by T. K. Rex
#ClimateFiction #SFF #ShortStories

https://littlebluemarble.ca/2023/09/08/a-lot-full-of-weeds/

For those of you #kindle #readers, I have some #shortstories in the #Vela section.

These stories are like "Final Destination" meets "The Monkey's Paw". As such, they are satirical tragedies more than either mysteries or horror, and would appeal most to readers who enjoy the inexorable pull of a story arc that leads from fateful act to final doom. In each episode, somebody makes a wish or a decision that ends in death, often their own

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@bookstodon
https://kdp.amazon.com/kindle-vella/story-details/EQJBA3N8X92

"We left wild things to tend wild things in the name of whatever god makes and takes wild things, and we went home...to where we kneel when necessary, and pretend to turn our eyes away from the tall of the trees, pretend there is nothing alive and wild and imperious hatching forever in our hearts, forever, forever."

"Baptism of a Gryphon," by Erin Brown: a flare of uncanny and bodily magnificence in The Fabulist today.

https://fabulistmagazine.com/baptism-of-a-gryphon-2/

#amreading #fiction #sff #shortstories

"Here's the thing about luck," she told me on her last Christmas. "You don't know if it's good or bad until you have some perspective."

#ShortStories
#Books

We put #capitalism and urban crime under the lens with José Falero and Maria Jacqueline Evans.

Catch it at https://fictionable.world or via #ApplePodcasts #Spotify #Acast and more …

#books #reading #writing #podcast #fiction #ShortStories #comics #translation @bookstodon

Great article on the effect of Amazon cancelling the Periodicals program

@bookstodon
#reading
#writing
#shortstories
#publishing

https://www.theverge.com/23861370/amazon-kindle-periodicals-unlimited-ended

This short-short story from Jordan Kurella about heartbreak and recovery is so gory and yet so sweet - just wonderfully done: https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/instructions-for-the-broken-hearted/

#ShortStories #fantasy

I have a new short-short story out today! You can read my historical fantasy story "Holding Back the Darkness" free online at
@bcsmagazine OR listen to it narrated by MK Hobson: https://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/holding-back-the-darkness/

#fantasy #ShortStories

And for something completely different...you can now read my short-short historical fantasy story "Holding Back the Darkness" free online at @bcsmagazine :

https://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/holding-back-the-darkness/

(This one's not so cozy! But I hope you'll enjoy it anyway. ;) )

#fantasy #ShortStories