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Sylvia Woodham
Nov 9, 20233 min read
The Shirt
It was a rainy day on campus, the flagstones slick and a slipping hazard. There was a dark coloured flattened out lump on a stone ahead...
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Sylvia Woodham
Nov 6, 20238 min read
Stalkers
I have mentioned my previous experience in my adult life having more time consumed by being stalked than anyone should have in five...
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Sylvia Woodham
Nov 5, 20231 min read
New Stories and Events!
Lots of exciting news! Out this week is a reprint of Erasure also Going Nuclear, with the ending reworked. Dark Horses Iss. 22 Nov. 2023...
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Sylvia Woodham
Sep 29, 20238 min read
On International Social Interactions
Today I was listening to German radio station and just enjoying the representation of different lanugages like Spanish and Portuguese in...
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Sylvia Woodham
Sep 17, 20236 min read
Dream Sequence (soundtrack incl.)
I have a lot of lucid dreams. Some of them are clear linear plot lines that become stories, like my most recently published. I have...
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Sylvia Woodham
Sep 9, 20234 min read
Health Progress!
At the start of the summer, I posted how daily social group interaction of an in person course this summer was a big transition for me...
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Sylvia Woodham
Aug 22, 20237 min read
Sylvia and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Editors
I have been blogging about horrific experiences in the world of "para publishing" freelancers The most recent examples might be the most...
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Sylvia Woodham
Jul 8, 20232 min read
Brenda Hsueh: Diverse Creatives
I will start by being direct: GO SEE ELEMENTAL IN THE THEATER. Now I'll tell you why. Brenda is an amazing human, and Brenda more than...
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Sylvia Woodham
Jul 3, 20236 min read
The Racketeers - Publishing
I have cracked the secret behind all of my posts observing what's wrong, why minority writers complain about running into BS. Someone has...
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Sylvia Woodham
Jun 21, 20233 min read
Coming Out - of Isolation
Officially, the pandemic/ lockdown phase ended for us a year and a half ago, but that doesn't mean that isolation hasn't lingered on for...
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Sylvia Woodham
May 15, 20238 min read
On Cutting Toxic Ties
Sounds like other people have had some rough life patches recently. There were some situations that exploded with a literary agency that...
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Sylvia Woodham
May 2, 20239 min read
Breaking Patterns
This is a personal journal entry about some upsetting and difficult dynamics I've faced in the past few weeks, as part of trying to...
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Sylvia Woodham
Apr 5, 20234 min read
On Mental Health in dealing with Writing freelancers
I am going to speak out about these experiences, because they cause burnout, and I feel populations who are behaving this way are a...
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Sylvia Woodham
Mar 31, 20239 min read
Formality of Voice vs. Expertise
This is a specific continuation around my Non-fiction proposal journey. First, there appears to be some disconnect between finding the...
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Sylvia Woodham
Mar 24, 20236 min read
The Non-Fiction Contrast
I sent out a spring newsletter this week to welcome new followers and let them know about updates in my writing. One of the themes of...
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Sylvia Woodham
Mar 22, 20234 min read
"Maerchen: Prince of Gold and Greed" has a home
My next short story will be published on Danse MacCabre in May: https://dansemacabreonline.wixsite.com/neudm/sylvia-woodham-150 In the...
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Sylvia Woodham
Feb 27, 20233 min read
A Conversation with AI
Following the flooding of Clarkesworld Submissions by AI generated stories, questions have abounded about the usage of AI for writing and...
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Sylvia Woodham
Feb 12, 20233 min read
Heroines Anthology Review
I will be giving a shout out to a few people in this post. To start at the beginning, friend Jill Witty first drew my attention to the...
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Sylvia Woodham
Feb 9, 20232 min read
On Dodos and Publishing Choices
One of my first group novel chapter sessions during the end of the first lockdown I met Matthias, and loved his use of the German...
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Sylvia Woodham
Jan 29, 20233 min read
German Goddess Holle. Not a Fairy
I've posted about European indigenous beliefs being appropropriated by the writing and publishing industry, badly, speaking generally....
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