A story acceptance!

Posted by bencooper | Filed under News

That’s right, after a few months of trying I’ve had another story accepted by the folks over at Aphelion. They took my short story ‘Gynoid’ and it will be published in the October issue which should be out in the next few days. Click the link above, or go to my weblinks page to get to the site.

I’ve been floundering with my fiction lately; not enjoying reading much, having no ideas and hardly writing anything SF related. The acceptance has given me a little boost, but I know I have to learn to just keep writing and keep submitting. Easier said than done.

I’ve been quiet for a while, so what have I been up to? Well:  more hard work on Acoustic, making some big changes to the magazine which have been well received, with more changes afoot; interviewing one of my favourite musicians, Kip Winger,  as well as other musical types; starting interview and review work on Soundshock and Innsmouth Free Press; not doing enough fiction writing and not updating my blog much!

Well, gotta dash and finish off some work.

Ta ta for now.

Permalink | October 3rd, 2009

One Response to “A story acceptance!”

  1. Leigh Barlow Says:
    October 5th, 2009 at 10:36 am

    Over the last year I’ve been trying to hone my writing skills to a point where I think what I produce is good enough to be submitted anywhere. In the meantime I have done a number of things to make me keep writing. A blog a day (which came from a challenge with a friend) has meant I’ve at least written something that is (close to) fit for human consumption each day. More recently I’ve started a short story every Friday (inspired by news that week) which is making me write better first time (hopefully) while at the same time giving me a deadline to write to.

    I also got to a point where I wasn’t reading a great deal and while this didn’t seem to be reducing my creative flow it was annoying. I’ve now solved this by putting one night each week aside for two hours of reading. Because of this I’ve now finished two books and started looking forward to Wednesday nights more than ever before.

    Well done on the acceptance and keep writing and sending stuff off.