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

Sunday, May 28, 2006

Where Am I Going? How Will I Get There?

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Nothing big going on, just wanted to drop in and say hi. I started writing down ideas today, not stories, but just anything that would get...
Saturday, May 13, 2006

51

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Number fifty-one is in the can. It’s A Girl in Crisis and it’s on its way to an editor as you read this, assuming, of course, that you’re ...
Tuesday, May 02, 2006

GIGO

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I bought two books on Sunday. The Best American Short Stories of the Century edited by John Updike and The Best of the Best: 20 Years of t...
Thursday, April 20, 2006

Second Drafts

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I recently finished the second draft of A Girl in Crisis and I’m about to begin the second draft of Process Five. Process Five is actually a...
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Wednesday, March 29, 2006

Finally 50

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No, not fifty years old, but fifty stories! It came about thusly: A couple years back I wrote a script for the first issue of a comic book s...
Monday, March 13, 2006

A Bad Couple of Weeks

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I’ve had a bad couple of weeks, not wanting to write a thing. I thought I wanted to write. I’d sit down to write, I’d even make some horrid ...
Monday, February 27, 2006

Octavia Butler

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Octavia Butler died on Saturday. As a reader, I’m generally hard to please and I probably couldn’t name fifteen writers whom I love, but I l...
Wednesday, February 15, 2006

A Random Thought

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I was thinking about a life’s work last night. We all have our life’s work, whether or not we’re conscious of it. Our life habits contribute...
Thursday, February 09, 2006

Shoot for Magnificence

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I’m looking at a couple of different things I’ve got going on at home, my self-review at work and helping my daughter with her science proje...
Tuesday, January 24, 2006

Dare To Write Crap

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I hit a wall like I always do after I finish work on a big story. Most of us do hit walls and the reason is that we’re trying to write too w...
Friday, January 13, 2006

Back From Beyond

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So what happened to me for the last month and a half? The holidays, for one, the wife and kids on Christmas vacation, visiting in-laws, the ...
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...
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