The Word Cloud

Since 2007, I've written serial fiction on  a blog called Diary of a Heretic, after a novel I wrote and haven't even finished putting up. I'm not trying to get it published traditionally; it's unlikely to appeal to the mass market--it's about a heretic. The idea was to keep myself from rewriting eveything to death. I would post fiction of 500-700 words every other day as a kind slow tightrope walk. It worked for awhile. Mostly I write novels and my word limit when I'm rewriting runs closer to 1000-plus.
     For several years in addition to my blog, which quickly turned into serial fiction, I wrote flash fictions for an online literary magazine, The View from Here. I spent one day writing a full story in fewer than 500 words and included a heavily worked graphic or photo. When TVFH was starting out, I delivered a flash fiction a week--don't ask me how. The ones I find embarrrassingly weak, others claim as their favorites. It looks as if people actually read my flash fiction, however, whereas I'm not so sure they do more than look at my serial posts. (Some of my pictures, free for all, are popular.) After writing a flash fiction a week, my productivity decreased continually and I haven't written one for awhile. They always felt like exercises to me but as I said, people read them, and it seems, still do.
     My serial fiction produced a number of good first drafts. I've rewritten four two or three times. Two of my efforts didn't turn out as I hoped; two novellas that I rewrote many times, I love and have put together--they're about the same characters at different times--as a novel that an agent has been keeping electronically for months.
Now I'm in the middle of a second go at an ambitious novel, James Bond and the Girls of Woodstock. If you're  interested in that, you'll find links to previous posts on the far right sidebar; just scroll down. Other works can be found by catagory, also on the sidebar.
      On Mondays, I'm rewriting a novella, Underground Nest, post by post, at the literary and art online zine, flashing by.