The One-Thousand

My Name: Matthew Sanborn Smith. My NEW challenge: Write 1000 stories before I die. Current story count: 206. The One-Thousand is made up of stories that are aimed at publication in professional venues. I've been published at Tor.com, Apex, and Nature, among others. See everything I do at matthewsanbornsmith.com. Shoot me an e-mail at upwithgravity@gmail.com

Friday, December 02, 2005

A False Jazzing

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Here I was all jazzed because I thought I had just completed story number 50. A landmark in my opinion. I was ready to add it to my list and...
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Monday, November 28, 2005

Where the Heck Have I Been?

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I’ve been not writing, that’s where I’ve been. This past holiday week, everyone has had the same days off I’ve had. While that makes for nif...
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Wednesday, November 16, 2005

Something to Read

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I can’t believe I’ve been away for a week! To What it May Concern is now up at Antipodean SF issue 90, so go check it out. I finished the f...
Wednesday, November 09, 2005

Holy Cow! A Comment!

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And here I thought no one was reading this blog. A reader named Bobo posted the following: can I read the Purpose of the machine?? I'm v...

Sometimes You're Just Inspired

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An idea struck me as was going for the mail today and I quickly wrote number 48, a piece of flash fiction (Under 500 words) called, The Next...
Tuesday, November 08, 2005

Roothi Has Left The Building

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I wrapped up Roothi’s Reassignment and I am sending her out. Number 47 is in the bag.
Sunday, November 06, 2005

Number 46

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I should make this clear here and now: Not every story is a story. Pretty much whatever I decide to send to an editor is considered a story ...
Friday, November 04, 2005

Writing, Writing, Nothing Exciting

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Nothing is really congealing at the moment, but that’s okay. I’m throwing a little bit of work into a lot of different stories. Ultimately, ...
Monday, October 31, 2005

TA-DA!

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Well, I don’t know if The Purpose of the Machine is a good story, but it is, in my opinion, a story. I’m elevating it to number 45. There j...
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Friday, October 28, 2005

Light of Other Days

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I did another revision of The Purpose of the Machine today. I fleshed it out a bit and felt a little better about the characterization. But...
Thursday, October 27, 2005

The Cracks

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We got through Hurricane Wilma all right. No real damage and we only lost power for a day. Of course, I had been scheduled for a lot of nigh...
Friday, October 21, 2005

Spaz

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I’m reading through both Roothi and the Purpose of the Machine and although they’re done in one sense, they’re not right. I can tell they ne...
Thursday, October 20, 2005

Just Showing Up

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Next to no writing got done tonight, unless you count e-mails to one of my writing compadres and this blog. A little punctuation and fluctua...
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Wednesday, October 19, 2005

A Good Day

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It was a good day. I finally had the house to myself and I got some good work done on "Roothi." Sent out a story to Fantasy and S...
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