Experience A New Kind Of Short Story Blog For Writers

Posted on April 29, 2013 by pittsburghflashfictiongazette
Woman As Art

Woman As Art

Welcome to my short story blog.  I’m the Old Soldier, the editor/publisher.  If you are open to good writing and brazen sexuality in the same online publication, you are in for a unique reading experience.

I’m a short story writer myself.  I know what a writer must go through to get his or her work done.  That’s why I publish the short stories of other writers.  That’s why this publication is a paying market.

But this publication is about a lot more than writing.  It’s about art.  It’s about life.

Welcome to the Pittsburgh Flash Fiction Gazette.  As an editor/publisher, I’ve been influenced by many people.  At the top of the list are Andy Warhol, David Letterman, Hue Hefner and Lady Gaga.  Check out the front page and you will see exactly what I mean.

Keep reading and keep writing.

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“Break on through to the other side.”–The Doors

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This blog is published near Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.

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The Alcoholism Of Jim Morrison

Posted on April 28, 2013 by pittsburghflashfictiongazette
Cover of "Light My Fire: My Life with the...

Cover of Light My Fire: My Life with the “Doors”

I’m almost done reading Light My Fire, My Life With The Doors by Ray Manzarek that I checked out from the public library.

In the 1960s, the medical community had yet to designate alcoholism as a disease.  By the time The Doors put out Strange Days, their second album, in 1967, Jim Morrison had begun his slide into alcoholism.  This was on top of the drugs he took, too; but the drugs didn’t seem to make him mean and self-destructive.  The alcohol did.

His band mates and the people who cared about him did not know how to help him.  When he drank too much he stopped being the Jim Morrison they knew.

Instead of being engaged in the music and in his poetry, he disengaged.  The band increasingly had to work around him.

On stage, the shaman finally shape-shifted into an over-weight hostile drunk.

Cover of "Strange Days"

Cover of Strange Days

We are left the myth, the promise and the music of a great rock and roll band: The Doors.

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  • Jim Morrison
  • Ray Manzarek
  • Robby Krieger
  • John Densmore

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This blog publishes erotic poetry.

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This short story blog is published for people who enjoy good writing and brazen sexuality in the same publication.  The blog is published near Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.

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10 Great Tips For Success As A Creative Writer

Posted on April 28, 2013 by pittsburghflashfictiongazette
  1. Writing is not a destination.  It’s a journey.
  2. Don’t expect to make a living at writing.  Make a living so that you can keep writing.
  3. Writing is a craft.  Study the craft of writing in the same way you would study any other craft.
  4. Write about what you know.  Then make the rest of it up.
  5. A writer learns how to write by reading and writing.  The two cannot be separated.
  6. Success as a writer is made up of 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration.
  7. A writer needs talent, self-discipline, perseverance and luck.
  8. Writing is a lonely business.  No one else can do it for you.
  9. Every writer must find his or her own level of success.
  10. A writer’s life is the best source material he or she will ever have.

    Woman As Art

    Woman As Art

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This blog publishes erotic poetry.

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This short story blog is published for readers and writers who appreciate creative writing and brazen sexuality in the same publication.  This blog is published near Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh.

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“A writer must survive in order to get his work done.” –Hemingway

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