Unfortunately, I won't be able to do my customary poorly-researched tips for writers this week, mostly due to a shortage of the aforementioned time. In an even briefer search than normal, I did find this gem, apparently from Tolstoy's memoirs:

"Write 1) in black, without considering the places and correctness of the expression of thoughts; 2) rewrite, excluding everything superfluous and giving the real place to every thought, and 3) rewrite, correcting the incorrectness of the expressions."

Unfortunately, "Just do it" is a Nike slogan and not all particularly useful in the particulars. Anyway!

Writer's Thread Question of the Week:

How useful would the community here find a weekly focused chance to read a piece and give feedback?

This idea came to me while coming up with writer's feedback for this year's Fark Fiction Anthology (seen below!) and what I'm thinking is, if other people think it's a good idea, is that anyone who wants to could send me a short fiction piece and I'll link it at the top of weekly writer's thread. Over the course of the week, anyone interested could read it, and give feedback in that thread (or in the next weeks' thread.) This would be an opportunity for writers to solicit feedback, anonymously if they prefer. Is this something that you all would find useful or interesting?

Fark Fiction Anthology Update!

I've finished sending out notices to everyone who submitted for this year's anthology! If you sent anything in, you should have received either a notice that we've accepted your submission for this year's anthology, or some feedback explaining why we made the decisions we made and potentially suggestions for your story. If you haven't heard from me, check your spam folders, and if I'm not hiding in there drop me a line here or at e­d­ito­rs­noit­cifkraf­net and I'll sort out what went wrong. Thanks!