https://www.masteryplus.com/members/mikebush/activity/ Activity feed for Michael Bush. Mon, 13 Apr 2026 18:13:56 -0700 https://buddypress.org/?v= en 30 hourly 2 231c9e02a9ea167d5791f0178aac6a77 http://revolutionary-writing.masteryplus.com/forums/topic/who-writes-the-best-short-fiction/ Sat, 14 Jan 2017 19:26:27 -0800 Steven’s advice in one of the last lessons was to read one level higher than your ambition. For the machine, his advice is to write short fiction. Well, I don’t read much short fiction, and I’m one of those people whose ambitions are through the roof. Whose short fiction should I be reading? Who is absolutely the best at the form?

]]> 96195e7b000cd9a44f4d41225377b50c http://revolutionary-writing.masteryplus.com/forums/topic/how-did-you-come-to-be-a-writer/#post-523 Sat, 14 Jan 2017 19:19:42 -0800 That said, I have started three short stories since the class began. I finished one. Another was a very hard sci-fi story where I got bogged down in science. I intend to spend the long weekend untangling some of that. The third I just… stopped. I should probably finish it.

]]> e6349de3d3112ed318557e8cf1a7afa7 http://revolutionary-writing.masteryplus.com/forums/topic/how-did-you-come-to-be-a-writer/#post-522 Sat, 14 Jan 2017 19:17:11 -0800 Steven, how sure are you that the short story market still exists in a form that’s useful for new writers? Because what I’ve heard isn’t encouraging- on the cruise, I got to have dinner with Lynn and Michael Thomas, the editors of Uncanny magazine, and I was regaled with stories of the thousands of submissions they get every month for the very few…[Read more]

]]> 6191c5fe5169e62c4c7d3392051d785c https://www.masteryplus.com/activity/p/541/ Fri, 13 Jan 2017 02:37:20 -0800 0 6691e5a61f614b542b08543e0f10f22e http://revolutionary-writing.masteryplus.com/forums/topic/how-did-you-come-to-be-a-writer/#post-519 Fri, 13 Jan 2017 02:33:36 -0800 I’ve wanted to write for as long as I can remember. My earliest stories were what I suppose most people’s early stories are: retellings of stories I had read with new characters, new interpretations, new things. My mother approved of reading, but only of certain works. She was concerned that I might read “trash”, by which she meant anything that…[Read more]

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