Short Fiction

This is the week my blogs seem to be focusing on rescheduling priorities. If you have read my other blogs (not just in short fiction) you will have seen that I overestimated the amount of work I would be able to produce this year. In some cases I may have been too optimistic; in others it was a lack of foresight on the changes that would come into my life from the outside.

Seven months in to this year, I find myself back at the old question: “Which should a newbie writer focus on—Novels or short stories?” I am going to continue to work on both long and short fiction, but over the next 8 months, the primary focus will be on long fiction. While I am working on the long fiction, I am going to begin plotting and re-plotting the crime drama short story “The Gangsta Way” and the modern fiction story “Dance of Death.”

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