Jeff Macfee

I am shopping a new short story, and it’s been rejected twice now. I won’t lie–it’s painful the day it happens. But by a day later, I regard it–as trite as it sounds–as building character. A necessary resume builder. No writer’s first work is great enough to be accepted right off [...]

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Chapter Thirteen is three extra chapters of writing, as compared to the last draft, and includes roughly twenty more pages. Does this matter? I don’t know.
I now understand why the big landmine of a scene, the “this scene is important scene” from my last blog post, was causing me such stress. Because [...]

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