D. Thomas Minton
writes speculative fiction from his home in the mountains of British Columbia.
Tag Archives: Short Story
Tell You What I Think: The Value of Critiquing
I think there are two ways to learn how to do something. The first is obvious: do it. No matter how much you read about something, there’s no substitute for actually doing it. In writing, you can read all of … Continue reading
An Unexpected Find
I have a bunch of Google Alerts set up to notify me when people post about my stories. Today while I was checking those Alerts, I corrected one that I noticed had an error in it. I immediately located a … Continue reading
“Thief of Futures” Now Available
The September issue of Lightspeed Magazine contains my story “Thief of Futures”. An electronic version is available for purchase now, or you can wait until September 20th to read my story free online. I’m excited to share the September issue with some … Continue reading
Posted in Science Fiction, Writing
Tagged Lightspeed Magazine, Short Story, Thief of Futures, World Fantasy Award
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Finally! It’s Out the Door
Whew! I finally got a story I’ve been working on for the last month-and-a-half out the door. For some reason, this story was particularly challenging to write. I’m not sure why. It was a “darkish” fantasy story, which is something I don’t normally write, … Continue reading
Killing Your Darlings
As part of my “training” to break into professional fiction writing, I routinely critique stories by other writers. (I do this both when asked and when I read, but that’s fodder for another post.) I recently critiqued a story in … Continue reading
Ten Down and It’s Only August
Recently I hit the first of my annual writing targets when I made my fortieth story submission. Over the weekend I hit a second of my goals by completing and submitting my tenth short story of the year, a piece called … Continue reading
Three Cheers for Hitting Forty
I wanted to get serious about my writing this year, so I set writing goals back in January (I’m a goal-oriented person). I developed four goals and what I thought were realistic targets for each: Write and/or edit at least 500 … Continue reading
Title Me Thus, Sayeth Gomorrah
Titles fascinating me, partly because I find them extremely challenging to write—either a title comes to me in a shot of inspiration, or no amount of wringing the ol’ grey-matter brings one—but also because they come in so many forms, from … Continue reading
Hot Mustard—I’m in There!
I stumbled across the Internet Speculative Fiction Database recently while exploring the vast reaches of the interweb. I hadn’t heard of it before, so I checked it out. Like any moderately vain person, I typed my own name into it … Continue reading
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Tagged Fantasy, Internet Speculative Fiction Database, Short Story
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To Write, Write, Write
Like everything in the world, there’s considerable variability in productivity from writer to writer. Some writers are notoriously slow, whereas others seem to have a steady stream of novels, short stories, poems, articles, graphic novels, blog post, etc. flying off their fingers. … Continue reading
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