Added a new Blog to the old blogroll today. Scott Baker run’s the Oso Muerte blog, and has been shortlisted for Clarion West.
I’m really hoping he gets in because we really seem to be on the same wavelength (though I would mourn any of the current applicants who can’t come, of course). For instance, he’s really expanded on the Clarion West Reality show idea I mentioned in an earlier post.
Give Scott’s blog a read. He’s a cool writer with cool ideas!
I just wanted to draw your attention to the latest Flash Fiction blog to hit teh interwebs.
Flash Fiction Chronicle is a “meta-blog” authored by the flash fiction magazine, Every Day Fiction‘s best and most prolific authors. The articles are really amazing. There’s a lot of collective wisdom out there about writing in general and flash fiction specifically.
I also think that the idea itself is full of win. The authors get yet more exposure for their own blogs (their picture appears alongside their article along with links back to their site), and the readers get a steady stream of great content from a variety of view points.
What does EDF get? Well, we’re “targeting” the key words “Flash Fiction”. The hope is that when people link to the site, they’ll use the words “Flash Fiction Chronicle”, which will help our rankings with Google. I doubt we’ll ever surpass Flash Fiction Online because of their cleverly chosen name, but our hope it to at least make the front page for that search.
Just saw this article at Locus Magazine regarding their new Clarion reality show. I have to say, their death match concept intrigues me.
Bowing to hard economic times, Clarions East and West1 have joined forces under the auspices of newly appointed director Dave Itzkoff and signed with the SyFy channel to participate in a new reality show called “Clarion Call: “Fight to Write.” Effective immediately, both workshops will be scaled back to three weeks and 15 students each. At the end of every day of shooting, one student will be eliminated. After the first 15 episodes have aired, the survivors of both Clarions will take each other on in a cage match televised live by SyFy and their new affiliate Shyte TV.
This has inspired me.
I’m going to borrow a video camera from my good friend Andrew LeBlanc and shoot a guerrilla-style Clarion West reality show, then upload it here (and by extension YouTube). Though Andy seems to think differently, I kind of believe a “battle to the death” style show starring writers would be boring as hell, but an informative documentary about a bunch of budding writers on the cusp of succeeding might be fun. And, as far as I’m aware, it’s never been done before.
So all you Clarionites, get ready to mug, cause you’re going to be on camera!
Added a plugin that will syndicate my posts to Facebook. I’m sooooo lazy, this kind of centralizes all of my social networking sites right into this blog.
I’ve centralized my reading into Google Reader