Category: "reading"
Stories I Love: December 2018
Well, we are at the end of a year of Stories I Love. It was a worthwhile experiment for me. I read 367 stories, most of them very good, many of them astoundingly good, and I learned a lot about what...
Stories I Love: November 2018
I'm discovering something interesting about the stories I love. There are a few common qualities: Immersive. Beautiful language is nice, but what I want is a story that pulls me in and takes me...
Stories I Love: October 2018
I was lucky enough this year to attend the Austin Film Festival, which is about film, but is focused on writers. I went to four days of an amazing conference listening to and meeting some successful...
Stories I Love: September 2018
Well, September was not like last month, I actually got some short stories read, but not up to the old pace. Earlier in the challenge I worked well ahead of that one story per day pace, but with...
Stories I Love: August 2018
Last month I said I was going to take a break from reading short stories, and boy did I. I did't read any. Not one. And this is a good thing. My wife and I desperately needed to get out of town, so we...
Stories I Love: July 2018
Time has a way of changing the game on you. My initial goal for this challenge was not to read a story every day, but to read 365 short stories this year (subtle difference). But, through July, I...
Stories I Love: June 2018
So, the 2018 is halfway over, how did that happen? Somehow spring always seems to be that way, gone in a flash of lengthening days, a warming sun, and fresh air. I'm well over half way to my goal of...
Stories I Love: May 2018
Artists should get paid. Woops, I probably just lost a bunch of people there, but bear with me. A lot of the short stories I list in this series are "free," but I encourage you to find a way to...
Stories I Love: April 2018
Everything is a tradeoff, including this goal of mine to read 365 short stories this year in a quest to become a better short story writer. Several things have gone by the wayside to make room for...
Stories I Love: March 2018
Short stories are important. For readers and writers. The “short” part allows for risk taking and experimentation. It allows both the writer and the reader to try something new with a much smaller...
Stories I Love: February 2018
A lot of good stories that I read don’t make it onto this list. Some very good stories. This is not “stories I like,” these are the stories that hit all the right notes, immerse me in their world,...
Stories I Love: January 2018
There are two things writers must do a lot of: Write Read Simple, right? I write some on a daily basis, I am also regularly reading fiction, but I have long known I've been deficient in my short story...
What is the future of eBooks?
Author JA Konrath has done a lot of thinking and writing on eBooks (not to mention making money selling them). If you are interested, check out his recent posts on the subject: E-Volution:...
Out With Kindle for PC In With Kindle for iPhone
I blogged previously about Sampling Books with Kindle for PC, this is a brief follow-up. I am no longer using Kindle for PC. The problem is I don't like to read on my PC. I spend all day at it...
Cory Doctorow's "Little Brother"
I read Cory Doctorow's Little Brother a few weekends ago, and I loved it. I think it's a good book, let me explain why. Doctorow recently wrote about how sci-fi is really about the present and not...
Sampling Books with Kindle for PC
I just downloaded Kindle for PC, and am reading the sample chapters from Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol. This is going to change the way (or change back to the pre-internet way) I shop for books. If...