100 Short Stories
Dec. 16th, 2018 11:12 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
grayestofghostsI'm thinking of goals for next year. Writing-wise it's going to be slow year if all goes well. I have about 250,000 words of unedited novel drafts that I plan to chip away at next year, and editing is really hard to quantify in a satisfying way, unlike adding to word counts. So I've got to do something else.
I, like pretty much everyone else on this planet, probably need to read more. I don't however want to make the mistake of setting up some kind of goal I can't reach or overcommitting myself to one type of reading while neglecting another. So 100 short stories sounds very... doable, in this way. I haven't read many short stories since I was trying to submit some a few years ago and they're low pressure to read and finish.
I have a few books of short stories that I haven't finished (Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe by Thomas Ligotti, Necronomicon by H. P. Lovecraft, and Fresh Ink by various). I am also on EveryDayFiction's email list, so I get those stories nearly every day. If anyone has any other recommendations, either books or magazines or websites or individual stories, I'm open to them. I was familiar with a number of SFF/Horror magazines but I know that the short story market can change very quickly as magazines fold -- I was very sad to see Shimmer go -- so I don't know what's out there anymore. I'll also definitely take recommendations that aren't SFF/Horror, too.
I might write a tweet-size review for each of them as I go. We'll see.
I, like pretty much everyone else on this planet, probably need to read more. I don't however want to make the mistake of setting up some kind of goal I can't reach or overcommitting myself to one type of reading while neglecting another. So 100 short stories sounds very... doable, in this way. I haven't read many short stories since I was trying to submit some a few years ago and they're low pressure to read and finish.
I have a few books of short stories that I haven't finished (Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe by Thomas Ligotti, Necronomicon by H. P. Lovecraft, and Fresh Ink by various). I am also on EveryDayFiction's email list, so I get those stories nearly every day. If anyone has any other recommendations, either books or magazines or websites or individual stories, I'm open to them. I was familiar with a number of SFF/Horror magazines but I know that the short story market can change very quickly as magazines fold -- I was very sad to see Shimmer go -- so I don't know what's out there anymore. I'll also definitely take recommendations that aren't SFF/Horror, too.
I might write a tweet-size review for each of them as I go. We'll see.
