Choose Your Font Wisely As you can see, based on the story linked here, there is now a computer printing font that is made up of cats, cleverly arranged to mimic letters. Here’s a pro-writer tip: The all-cat font is not an appropriate choice for your manuscript submissions. (Yes, I’m being a little silly…) But, it does serve as a good reminder: Writers should stick to the tried and true, easy to read fonts when sharing their work. I suggest this not only because novelty fonts

A few weeks ago I shared my submissions tracking method with a writing friend of mine. I was using a complex, three-worksheet spreadsheet, with over 100 literary magazines and short story periodicals. One one sheet I kept track of the journal’s specifics (word count, simultaneous submission policy, open periods for submissions, web-site, etc) and on a second sheet, I kept track of which story had been submitted to which journals. I marked the story with an ‘o’ when it was sen

This is one of those blog posts that may be more for my own benefit than it is a post for you, the reader. (You can read it, though. I wouldn’t want to scare you away!) There are several ways I try to keep track of my writing and writing-related activities. As I’ve written in the past, I think planning and tracking (and here and here) and being intentional about what I’m doing as a writer is a key component to, you know, actually WRITING rather than wasting my days playing Wo