Admittedly, it feels like cheating, but workshop prompts really work for me. There’s something challenging about being given a specific set of criteria and then figuring out how to make it different from everyone else.
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Sometimes stats and numbers are nice. They frame expectations and give perspective. My favorite calls are ones where there are constraints. In this case, for their 10th Anniversary celebration issue, Split Lip wanted small stories in less that 275 words
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Sometimes, pieces sit in the proverbial drawer waiting for just the right submission call. Also, sometimes, it pays to scroll Twitter late on a Saturday night.
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Earlier this year, I was invited to do a guest blog post for another writer whom I greatly admire. It was such an honor to be asked and at first I was thrilled, and then I was quite nervous. In other words, imposter syndrome kicked in and it kicked in hard. What do I have to say to other writers (many who are way more skilled and accomplished than I) that they wouldn’t already know?
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This was the first time I got a rejection that wasn’t really a rejection.
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I took 7 tiny poems and turned them into 7 tiny films.
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The contest guidelines were simple enough. Write a story in 10 words. I like writing small forms, but oh, how challenging this one was!
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This little micro fiction came from a photo I saw of two people sitting back to back with only their legs framed in the picture. Bits of imagery made it into story, but in the end, it was less about the legs (which was the original working title of this piece) and more about the separate journeys ahead.
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I grew up landlocked in the prairies, and continue to live nowhere near a coast. Still…I miss the sea. This poem was inspired by a sleepless night where, due to a combination of insomnia and jet lag, the waves outside my window kept me up, incessant, refusing to cease their roar until morning. So much for the idea of being lulled off to dreamland by the sound of peaceful waves.
Read Tonight, I Do Not Love the Sea (and Questions I Ask the Shore) in Kissing Dynamite’s banging Issue 38: Sublunary.
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