I started writing this page knowing that I’d have the time to devote to it. I mean, I’m still not working, so I guess I still have the time, but that’s neither here nor there because that’s not going to last, is it? I’m not working because there was that issue at work that we won’t be getting into right now. Basically, I started this page because I couldn’t get magazines to publish my stories. They were just too long. Also, since I wasn’t getting published—except on the once-in-a-blue-moon sites that published but didn’t pay—I thought I’d take things into my own hands and see what I could do with it. I came into this with the idea that if you have a good story, people will read it.
But you have to have a good story.
Ah, there’s the rub, as the old Bard says, because I haven’t written a story this year. Oh sure, I worked on JACK OF DIAMONDS and was putting it up on another platform, VOCAL.MEDIA, but (and I’ve said this before) VOCAL was too restricting. So I left. I didn’t leave because…
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