HOOT’s fantastic online issues may have not made the cut, but check out these other greats (especially if you are looking to procrastinate on something important).

—James

unconsciousplots:

1. He read the masters and studied them obsessively.

2. He was friends with writers and discussed writing, art, and literature incessantly.

3. He prioritized his writing.

4. He wrote all sorts of things.

5. He wasn’t afraid of the process.

6. He knew when his work needed to be put in a drawer.

Hey all,

Guess who got written up in Geekadelphia this week? We did! Thanks to Shawn Proctor for writing this fantastic article! It is great and awesome and great, and you should check it out, and us out.

Why? As Shawn put it:

If you’re like many fiction readers, subscribing to a big literary journal was a way to support the arts and keep new stories and verse at your fingertips. Most likely what you got instead: a stack of dusty New Yorkers you keep promising to sit down and read one of these days.

Do yourself a favor. Go back in time (Tardis or flux capacitor, Delorean, and 1.21 gigawatts of power needed) and subscribe to HOOT instead. A postcard magazine, HOOT delivers quality poetry and fiction in a form—ultra-short and paired with attractive art—that people will actually read.

Hooray!

—James

The other day I was talking to someone about needing to write a short piece, and they said, “if it only has to be 150 words, can’t you just write it now? You have 10 minutes!”

Flash is a lot more than having 10 minutes to spare. That being said, for those of you who favor longer, more extensively “complex” works of writing, read this article and take some of those 10 minutes to re-consider why flash might just be a really, really awesome exercise in your writing practice.

—James

A quick query of quotes (that almost works) to remind writers working in length constraints about the particulars they should focus on! A helpful read for all writers, really.

—James