Register  |  Login  |  Literary T-Shirt Store  |    
The Book of Urizen (Your Reason) by William Blake, published as an illuminated manuscript
Recent Comments

" I clicked on an advert on Facebook and came to your site. And proceeded to read through your entries like the creeper I sometimes am. I think you should just publish your blog entries. You know how "the Princess Diaries" got adapted for a movie. Yours would be so much better. (And sorry to compare you to such a worthless book.) Anyways, just a thought. " Read more
by Christine on To Publish a Sumerian Novel and other 2010 Resolutions

"Your Muse is clearly feeling passive-aggressive (what self-respecting Muse wouldn't, when forced to regurgitate Marketing copy for an enterprise software brochure?) - it's throwing things (like Spanish dictionaries) at you, hoping you'll notice and stop neglecting it or feeding it menudo. If you thought throwing it in the washer was a bad move, you really ought to read "Eradicating Edna," my unfinished NaNoNovel over on Scribd. Now THAT's Muse abuse!" Read more
by Holly Jahangiri on Murdering My Creative Writing Muse with Seven Random Words from Dictionary

Links for Readers and Writers
  Minimize

Unpublished Guy Fiction Publishing Episode Guide


A catalog of of Unpublished Guy's fiction publishing adventures.

July Novel Writing Month Debacle Minimize

Unpublished Guy participated in July Novel Writing Month.

The Goal:
Write a 50,000 word novel in the month of July. 

Final Word Count
15950 / 50000
Word Count Start32% Complete68% To GoWord Count End

Chart thumbnail of July Novel Writing Month Effort
See full size chart of July Novel Writing Month Effort
Calculating Fiction Writing Contest ROI Minimize

On what fiction writing contest should you squander $20? I calculated the return-on-investment (ROI) of several different contests.

Contest Return
ReadMe Publishing (40)
Glimmer Train (49)
Alligator Juniper (50)
Barry Hannah (50)
Fish Flash Fiction (59)
Newport Review (126)
Springfield Writers’ Guild (161)
Inland Empire (409)
Bards and Sages (484)
Silver Quill Society (485)

See the full table of fiction writing contest

Not Really Daily Random Book Title

A random title for that next blockbuster novel or Pulitzer Prize short story:
The Story of Quinton Plates

Most Read
Popular Tags