Most mails I receive from studio-ni finish in the bin but once in a while, there comes something really useful - like these two links from Strange Horizons, a speculative fiction webzine. Apparently, you can submit texts to them - good to know if I kick my butt once the course is over and set to work on my stories. It's high time I sent them out there.

Well, on condition I avoid these pitfalls :

Stories We've Seen Too Often

( In case the link doesn't work )

Horror Stories We've Seen Too Often

( In case the link doesn't work )


I've just noticed (and added to may watchlist) notemeetsletter , an interesting writing challenge in which the community posts a music video every week as a writing prompt. That suits perfectly the music freak that I am :)

It hit me the last time I jotted down one more idea in my notebook for my novel and found myself thinking "Oh no, not again !". Whatever the story I write or just daydream, or whatever the character I create for a novel or role-playing game, there is always an element or a pattern that keeps coming up. Then I came to realize that almost all my stories and characters share common characteristics. The good news is that's the mark of a personal style, but I can't help thinking, however, that I may be either an obsessive type of writer with unresolved issues or that I just lack of imagination.

( Here are some of these recurrences... )