Stephen Thompson's Writing Blog

Stephen Thompson

Stephen Thompson
Location
Brookville, Pennsylvania,
Birthday
February 10
Bio
I'm a writer. Mostly short and mostly scifi, but I dabble in other lengths and genres. You can find more on my webpage, http://www.oneoveralpha.com.

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JUNE 11, 2012 11:35AM

My first two books are on Kindle

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 My first two story collections – ninety stories in all – are now available on Kindle for only $2.99 each.

 A Man of Few Words

 A Man of Few Words is a collection of 50 flash fiction stories by Stephen L. Thompson. How does a teenager work… Read full post »

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MAY 6, 2012 11:41AM

My first book is two years old!

Two years ago today, using CreateSpace I self-published my first story collection, A Man of Few Words. 

 

A Man of Few Words

 

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A Man of Few Words is a collection of 50 flash fiction stories by Stephen L. Thompson. How does a teenager… Read full post »

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MARCH 26, 2012 2:41PM

Upcoming story madness

Four years ago, I had the crazy idea of trying to see if I could write thirty stories in thirty days.  What’s even crazier, is that I set out to write thirty stories in thirty days and I succeeded.  What’s even crazier than that is that I’ve tried every year since. … Read full post »
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MARCH 10, 2012 12:17AM

This is only a test

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 The above is a way for Empire Avenue to verify that the person who goes by (e)1alpha is indeed the author of this blog.   So everybody else can ignore this. Read full post »

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MARCH 1, 2012 1:33PM

There are always more hooks in the sea

This blog began when I followed some links on Twitter and ended up on a website looking for short stories.  As a short story writer, it’s always good to find new markets and what perked me up was that they paid for stories.  So I looked into the site and discovered… Read full post »

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FEBRUARY 22, 2012 3:19PM

Writing every day

When you start writing, you’re given all sorts of advice: write what you know; show, don’t tell; hook them with the first sentence; etc.  I think most writers go through stages of taking such advice as commandments, naïve sentiments of the old fogies to be challenged, to accepta… Read full post »

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FEBRUARY 14, 2012 2:18PM

Why I write flash fiction

This is a revised article I published a couple of years ago on a different blog.  Read the original post here.

A few years ago, while going over some of my flash fiction stories in a writing group, one woman said that she didn’t “get” the stories.  She… Read full post »

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