Writing and Publishing Fiction

Low-resolution picture of Slaughterhouse-Five movie poster.

An example of a movie that was better than the book?

What Broken Hearts Has Published Fiction Left Behind?

This month the Unpublished Guy Fiction Panel discusses Becoming Coyote by Wayne Ude,
who happened to be my Creative Writing instructor at Old Dominion University.

In court I swear I still like a little avocado polymer
to bulge and shrink the direction

My credo, divorced from reality:
Don't brag about your lightning fiction writing pace,
for Slow and Steady won the fiction publishing race.

Hyperminimalism in the visual arts.

I remember Mr. Yuck growing up in Virginia.
I told some Michigan friends about Mr. Yuck,
but they had no idea what I was talking about.

Corner Desk in Closet

The unpublished life requires lots of sacrifice, and cash can get tight. To make ends meet until I get published and can live off royalty checks, I am renting out a room in my house. See classified below.

I'm short by about 4200 pixels on this resolution. I've got 11 more writing and publishing resolutions.

Happy New Year Everyone! (A day late, I know, and I just used up my lifetime allotment of exclamation points.)

The New Year is the time to make hopeful, unrealistic resolutions. Here are eleven of mine

The Deviled Egg Eyes of the Publishing Abyss Gaze into My Soul

'Twas the season to be jolly a short while back.

Dr. Zaius received Charleton Heston, stuffed by the finest simian taxidermist. When wrapped, it was certainly the most oddly shaped gift

Xtreme Brain Activity.
Xtreme temporal and spatial dislocations
in creative nonfiction.

Vaporware fiction: a story that is promoted when it may never be written

I completed most of a book proposal for a collection of short stories about Ambrose Bierce and Jerry O' Connell having adventures together chasing after Bierce's run away moustache. Many writers would begin by writing the story first and then writing a proposal to submit to publishers and agents. I, on the other hand with my background working for software companies, have done the reverse and created fiction vaporware.

Unpublished Guy Fiction Panel (left to right): William Blake, Dr. Zaius, Mrs. Butterworth

William Blake: Kafka, Kafka. burning bright. In the fiction of the night; What existential void. Could dissemble thy inexplicable asymmetry?

The Hand of Unpublished Guy's
Mighty Fiction Writing Blog

Another section of my fiction book proposal complete—all about me:

Unpublished Guy earned a BA in professional writing from Old Dominion University, an educational institution that obviously has a long tradition of academic excellence, since it has the word "old" in it.

Fiction Book Proposal Promotional Plan
Must Reach Jerry O' Connell/Ambrose Bierce Demographic

In the increasingly fragmented world of literature, a book of fiction such as mine must take a niche approach to marketing. It lacks mass appeal. I have decided a good target market would be those people that both enjoy the witty satire and 19^th century literary works of Ambrose Bierce, as well as movies like Kangaroo Jack and TV shows like Crossing Jordon. I have located this person.