Bulldrek v3.0

http://the-unpublishable.com

Most of you will rightly ignore this, but I've started up a weekly writing blog, which will feature original fiction every Friday. I got tired of submitting shit to magazines, e-zines, and anthologies and getting rejected (even the free e-zines have standards, it seems), so I'm just going to say "fuck it" and free. The doodles and music are just to keep it from looking so frickin' sparse, I doubt any of y'all here will care much for that one way or another.

Today's offering is Topeka Gold Rush, a crime story.

http://www.the-unpublishable.com/2011/0 ... s-war.html

This week's offering is a brief fantasy.

I think it's a great idea that you started this. I'd reconsider the tabs at the start of each new paragraph like you did in the second post, though. It doesn't read as easy on the screen as it does in a book.

Still playing with formatting. I just want to see if I can keep this up. A year of short stories and maybe I'll write something worth reading.

http://www.the-unpublishable.com/2011/05/1.html

This week's short story is "A=1", a piece of science fiction.

This week on The Unpublishable is an adult fantasy fiction short story, The Ianthe Complex: http://www.the-unpublishable.com/2011/0 ... mplex.html

For mature readers.

Inter Nova, a free international science fiction ezine, published my short story "Three-Fingered Joe."

http://nova-sf.de/internova/?p=479

Today's Unpublishable is Never Late, an urban fantasy microfiction: http://www.the-unpublishable.com/2011/0 ... -late.html

This Friday's Unpublishable is "13 Inches to Life", an adult fiction short story. http://www.the-unpublishable.com/2011/0 ... -life.html

I seriously doubt any of you read this, but this week on the Unpublishable is "Life-Cycle of a Necronomicon": http://www.the-unpublishable.com/2011/0 ... micon.html

This week on The Unpublishable, science fiction microfiction: Burnt.

Another Friday, another short story. This week on the Unpublishable: Cunning Man, a piece of weird fiction not for the faint of stomach.
http://www.the-unpublishable.com/2011/0 ... g-man.html

None of you read this, so I'm posting out of habit or spite. This week on the Unpublishable: Perkele, a fantasy tale for all ages. http://www.the-unpublishable.com/2011/06/perkele.html

This week on The Unpublishable is a musical fantasy: Mix Tape. http://www.the-unpublishable.com/2011/06/mix-tape.html

This week on the Unpublishable:The Yezidi Contract: http://www.the-unpublishable.c​om/2011/07/yezidi-contract-i.h​tml

Today on The Unpublishable is Zippergirl, and adult romance: http://www.the-unpublishable.c​om/2011/07/zippergirl.html

You didn't ask for it, you didn't want it, but here it is anyway. Today on the Unpublishable, explore the American Guild of Occult Detectives: http://www.the-unpublishable.com/2011/0 ... tives.html

I've read a few of these, and I think some of it is very good. And I'm not a very forgiving audience. I can offer some more in-depth feedback if that's the kind of thing you're after.

One bit of advice, though: I think you've got the wrong attitude about this whole thing. From the name of the project, to your commentary in this forum ["None of you read this, so I'm posting out of habit or spite.", etc], it's all so negative and defeatist, which isn't endearing to your audience or your prospective publishers. Yeah, it sucks to be turned down, but you know who has to deal with that? Every published writer on the planet. There comes a point when you have to ask yourself, "why am I doing this?" If it's to have stuff published and to profit from it, well, I suggest finding a new hobby. If the answer is, "because it's a true passion of mine, and it enriches my life", then, yeah, keep at it. And you just might find that, if you care enough about it, some other people might also. At that point, though, if it's adding value to your life, then you've already won. Just some friendly advice.

I'm just amazed you read any of these. I get so little feedback, it ain't even funny.

As for the defeatist talk, I generally save it for Bulldrek. Y'all have a low enough opinion of me already, I can do the self-deprecation for shits and giggles. As to why I write...<shrug> I'm a writer.

I'd give more feedback, but I'm an even less forgiving audience.

I'll take any feedback, positive or negative.

I know you will, and I think that's really laudable. But that doesn't mean I'm comfortable with giving it. "The British Disease," I think they call it.

Now on the Unpublishable, a brand new adult fantasy: The Goat-Towers of Ardit. http://www.the-unpublishable.com/2011/0 ... ardit.html

Blast from the past this week on the Unpublishable, Grey Irish, an adult science fiction snippet fiction epic: http://www.the-unpublishable.com/2011/0 ... irish.html

Today on the Unpublishable is "An Arm & A Leg" - a weird fiction romance: http://www.the-unpublishable.com/2011/08/arm-leg.html

Today on the Unpublishable, a piece of weird fiction I dare you to un-puzzle: Nothing Out. http://www.the-unpublishable.com/2011/0 ... g-out.html

It's still Friday. This week on the Unpublishable is a modern adult story of a woman, "Tick Tits Boom." http://www.the-unpublishable.com/2011/0 ... -boom.html

Today on The Unpublishable, something a little different: an adult one-act play, "The Wrong Porn." http://www.the-unpublishable.com/2011/0 ... -porn.html

Today on the Unpublishable, a piece of financial fiction: Balancing the Book http://www.the-unpublishable.com/2011/0 ... -book.html

I know "financial fiction" isn't really a genre, but I like to try something new every now and again.

Keep 'em coming, AH.

Thanks deev!

Today on the Unpublishable is Red Honey, another tale of the Cunning Man: http://www.the-unpublishable.com/2011/09/red-honey.html

Today on The Unpublishable is a lost page from a classic work, for adults only: http://www.the-unpublishable.com/2011/0 ... y-day.html

Today on The Unpublishable is a bit of science fantasy -- Exotic Energies, Inc.
http://www.the-unpublishable.com/2011/0 ... s-inc.html

Science fantasy is a bit harder for me to write.

Today on the Unpublishable, something weird and barely coherent: Þorn
http://www.the-unpublishable.com/2011/10/orn.html

This week on the Unpublishable is "Heavy Water", set in the posthuman Eclipse Phase universe: http://www.the-unpublishable.com/2011/1 ... water.html

Today on the Unpublishable, the adventures of Detective Jack Bastard begin in Afterbirth: http://www.the-unpublishable.com/2011/1 ... birth.html

Today's Unpublishable is another Eclipse Phase short-story, "Starwell on 13 @-rep" - even in the future, it can be hard for young people to scrape by. http://www.the-unpublishable.com/2011/1 ... 3-rep.html

It's still Friday. New on the Unpublishable is "An Angel Passed," a weird story for weird people: http://www.the-unpublishable.com/2011/1 ... assed.html

Todays' Unpublishable is inspired by an incident I read recently in a biography. The resulting one-act play is "Nights in August." http://www.the-unpublishable.com/2011/1 ... ugust.html

Today on the Unpublishable, a strictly adults-only short: Blood on the Set. http://www.the-unpublishable.com/2011/1 ... n-set.html

Don't know how many of you are still following The Unpublishable, but this week we have a new, adult macabre story: Daughter of Pearl
http://www.the-unpublishable.com/2011/1 ... pearl.html

Today on the Unpublishable, a collection of microfiction stories for friends birthdays. http://www.the-unpublishable.com/2011/1 ... ories.html

Today's Unpublishable is short and weird: The Inheritance of Willie Glover: http://www.the-unpublishable.com/2011/1 ... lover.html

I don't know how much longer I'll keep up the weekly schedule.

Keep 'em coming buddy!

Today on The Unpublishable is "No Sprach," a story about communication that will leave my German friends spitting blood. http://www.the-unpublishable.com/2012/01/no-sprach.html

It's yellow leaf journalism on the Unpublishable with the newest, weirdest story yet: Cruciferous.
http://www.the-unpublishable.com/2012/0 ... erous.html

Today on the Unpublishable is "Changeling Wood," another story of the cunning man: http://www.the-unpublishable.com/2012/0 ... -wood.html

Not sure who still reads these things, but today on the Unpublishable we have an excerpt from an account of war, Chapter XII: http://www.the-unpublishable.com/2012/0 ... r-xii.html

If anyone can guess the source of this, you win.