stories from the mindscape of A.L. Blacklyn
This is an announcement of my new pen name-- --and a quick question-and-answer about it. Q: What Do We Call You? A: The A stands for several names I've gone by offline. If that's how you know me, then continue on. Members of the Society for Creative Anachronism are familiar with how that works. The… Continue reading Moving Shadows Pen Name
Howdy, y'all. Happy Saturday? I'd be happier if I stuck in shadows without my consent. While waiting for Twitter to respond about what's happening with my account, I'm playing with the options that site has left open for me during the poorly explained restrictions. Twitter is ignoring my instructions from WordPress. The restrictions twitter.com also… Continue reading Restricted from Giving ❤️s
Additional Update--Saturday, August 11: The form email from Twitter instructed me to reply to if the issues continued after a few hours. I sent a reply this morning. The status of my @writeramlynn account hasn't changed since I blogged about it on Wednesday. With the restrictions keeping me from interacting with others on Twitter is… Continue reading Twitter Limitations
Story time! This weekend's story is a revision of one that first appeared on Cristi Craig's now-defunct blog. (She created a new blog.) Cristi challenged me to write flash fiction inspired by a prompt of "creep". She gave me about a day to draft the original. The result was a contemporary story about cousins living… Continue reading Glimmer: End to the Creepy Game
Though my focus this month remains on my short stories, I know many of the writers I see online are holding on to completed book manuscripts in need of homes. Are you ready for an agent or content editor? Manuscript Wish Tracking I came upon resources for querying publishing agents that is now in Www-writing… Continue reading A Few Ways to Get to Publishing Agents
Maybe no one else knows. I was trying for Weird Science in the News on the last Friday of the month and a weekly post with one of my poems or stories every Saturday. That didn't work out this weekend. Focusing on the past won't change it. I'm moving ahead with plans for this next… Continue reading On Posts’ Status and Comments
Welcome to Shadows in Mind This new blog for A.M. Lynn is starting fresh after more than eight years of false starts and interruptions. Did you notice the URL for this site? It's finally shadowsinmind.net instead of a .wordpress domain name. Who's A.M. Lynn? Let's make sure you know me. My byline for long narratives… Continue reading Settling Into a New Webspace
