Happy Medium: How to Become a Medium Author

May 24, 2018May 10, 2018 / Sasha A. Palmer

Landscape (Paysage)

Want to write for Medium, but don’t know how to go about it?

A detailed tutorial from Indies Unlimited will help you get started.

Although Medium allows you to import already published blog posts, bear in mind that Medium is not the same as, say, WordPress.

You might find yourself writing different content for these two platforms.

Note: The posts I’ve linked to have important info in the comment threads as well. Don’t forget to check out the comments.

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Image: Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Landscape (Paysage), c. 1917. Oil on canvas, Overall: 10 7/8 x 16 in. (27.6 x 40.6 cm). BF4. Public Domain.

“Curious Wonder” vs. “Critical Judgement”, or Ways to Read Poetry

February 1, 2018February 1, 2018 / Sasha A. Palmer / 1 Comment

Reading (La Lecture)

Emily Dickinson is nobody’s business but my own. I will not share her with anyone. I would no more tell you about my relationship with her poems than I would tell you about a love affair. If she is yours, I hope you feel the same way.” — from Mary Ruefle’s essay “My Emily Dickinson” quoted in The Paris Review

“Some are surprised that the rigorous analytical approach PG learned to apply to poetry has served him quite well in analyzing contracts and other legal documents.” — from the Passive Guy’s post on The Passive Voice blog

How do you read poetry? Do you as a reader note, for instance, prosody — the patterns of rhythm and sound? In your opinion, should poetry be analyzed? Simply enjoyed? Both? Do share in the comments.

Just one more thing (as Columbo would say): head over to Indies Unlimited to vote for your favorite flash fiction entry (will it be mine?). Hurry: the voting closes at 5 pm Pacific time today. Thank you.
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Image credit: Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Reading (La Lecture), c. 1891. Oil on canvas, Overall: 18 1/8 x 22 1/16 in. (46 x 56 cm). BF107. Public Domain.

Where Will an “Ocean of Sand” Take You?

January 31, 2018February 1, 2018 / Sasha A. Palmer

See all 15 responses (including mine) to the latest visual prompt from Indies Unlimited.

For some technical reason when I post the link to the voting page, it doesn’t open properly: it shows the results, and doesn’t give you an option to vote. So, if you really really want to vote for your favorite entry, please go to Indies Unlimited, open the post ‘Which “Ocean of Sand” Flash Fiction Story Gets Your Vote?’, and vote from there. This should work. Thank you.

Be sure to vote by 5 pm Pacific time today.

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On Guest Posts, Poem Painting, & Freedom

November 2, 2017October 6, 2017 / Sasha A. Palmer

Want to write a guest post for Indies Unlimited? Read this.

“But your poems are rather hard to understand, whereas your paintings are so easy.
Easy?
Of course — you paint flowers and girls and sunsets; things that everybody understands.
I never met him.
Who?
Everybody.”

Find out who the poet/painter is.

Do you pity yourself? Bully yourself? Choose to be free:

Writing vs. Science

May 4, 2017April 24, 2017 / Sasha A. Palmer

“Experts tend to fill their novels with esoteric information that gets in the way of the story, so choose your atmospheric/tech descriptions wisely…Because what the vast majority of people want is good stories. They couldn’t care less about the science. Readers want realistic characters, not realistic science.”

— author Gordon Long on “Why Scientists Shouldn’t Write Science Fiction”

Just because I don’t write four books per year

September 24, 2015September 17, 2015 / Sasha A. Palmer

“Just because I don’t write four books per year doesn’t mean I think it’s impossible. I can’t run 100 meters in under ten seconds, but Usain Bolt does it all the time.”

— Shawn Inmon in response to Lorraine Devon Wilke

Whose side are you on?

Indies Unlimited 2014 Flash Fiction Anthology

June 23, 2015June 25, 2015 / Sasha A. Palmer

The Indies Unlimited 2014 Flash Fiction Anthology is available as an eBook!

Photographs by K. S. Brooks. Prompts by Stephen Hise. Authors with stories in the anthology include: Annette Rochelle Aben, Ralph L. Angelo, Jr., R.L. Austin, Laurie Boris, Melissa Bowersock, Christian A. Brown, Lynne Cantwell, A.V. Carden, Victoria A. Carr, Joan Childs, DW Davis, Leland Dirks, Jennifer Don, Ed Drury, Kathryn El-Assal, Sylvia Heike, Jamie R. Hershberger, Yvonne Hertzberger, Chris James, Howard Johnson, Vickie Johnstone, A. L. Kaplan, K.L. Kelso, L.A. Lewandowski, Angela Luo, S.A. Molteni, Kevin D. Montgomery, Arlene R. O’Neil, Sasha A. Palmer, Brenda Perlin, Sara Stark, Kathy Steinemann, Dick C. Waters, and Mandy White.