Hey all, Persnickety here, curator of the Mixed Tape collections.
The latest Mixed Tape is still coming along at a snails pace. At this point, an early February release doesn't look likely. As for the new release date, it'll happen when it happens, and it'll happen when we get at least 10 stories. I want to kick of the year with something substantial.
If you would like to be part of the collection, read on. This time around I'd also like to shine a spotlight on some of the longer stories you folks write, if you'd like on that, you'll find more information after the jump.
The guidelines are simple. You can submit up to 1000 words of fiction, but you need not expend all these words on a single story. Multiple submissions are encouraged!
In addition, this time around we'll also be accepting teasers from longer stories published in the last 12 months. If you have a story that you'd like to promote, select a 500 word excerpt and send it in, along with a blurb for the story and a short piece (say between 200-300 words long) describing what inspired you to write it.
The completed collection will be posted on this site, at Fictionmania, and at TG Storytime.
Email submissions to [email protected]. (sooner rather than later would be great!)
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Hey PB
I haven't had the time to sit down and write for a while but I will almost certainly have the chance over the weekend. It'll come together soon, I'm sure.
I'd love to write something,
I'd love to write something, but haven't exactly been pleased with the ideas that I've had for flash fiction lately. Just about all the story concepts that have been popping in my head lately have been far too complex to work in the constraints of the Mixed Tape.
Have a delightfully devious day,
I had much the same problem....
For much of the last eight months, I had been plagued with depression and insomnia to such an extent that it was all I could do to remember my own name, let alone put words in print (or on a screen). The antidepressant Sertraline has brought back a lot of the old creative spark, but feel lost now that the Mixed Tapes are no more. I feel somewhat responsible, like I abandoned you, PersnicketyB. I do hope you revive them in future, or some other worthy soul decides to continue them.
Livin' A Ragtime Life,
Rachel