Blood Lotus is an online literary quarterly established in 2006 and run by editors who refuse to believe everything has already been written, and who want to promote your best writing as proof. Blood Lotus accepts poetry, fiction and gray area. Every other Monday, we’ll post a poem/group of poems or a short story by a featured author for a two-week period. We hope this format will cast more of a spotlight on our deserving authors and generate more conversation on our blog. To that end, we’ll also offer commentary on every published piece: what we love about it and why it was chosen, directly from the co-editor who discovered and accepted it. Click here for guidelines.
Month: January 2014
Guest Blogger Bella Andre couldn’t stand it anymore, so she . . .
Guest Blogger Bella Andre shares what it takes to get writing. In the workshops I give to writers, I talk a lot about blocking out the white noise (email, Facebook, phone calls, prolonged internet searches for information you don’t really need to know to write your first draft, etc.) and putting on blinders so you can really give your focus to your book. This advice is a lesson I personally relearn with every single book I write. That’s the quick and pretty version, but if you pull back the glossy cover, the past 30 months actually look like this: * Decide to start my new book. * Do everything but start the book. * Make more big plans to start the book, for real this time. * Freak out about not starting the book. * Tell myself that tackling the non-writing items on my enormous to-do list is important, necessary…