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Day 09 Writing Workout

Sep 26, 2025

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Ace Baker

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Today we look at why writers need to grow some rhinoceros skin!
Day 02 Writing Workout

Aug 31, 2025

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Ace Baker

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Day two is all about looking at a creative work in one form and transforming it into a work of writing! Ekphrasis!
Day 01 Writing Workout

Aug 30, 2025

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Ace Baker

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A great writing habit that you definitely have time for in your day!
I have a MAGPIE…I’d love a RAVEN!

Oct 26, 2015

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Ace Baker

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Don’t worry–I don’t keep wild birds captive in my home. All I mean is that I just heard some good news: Dear Authors, Congratulations! If you are receiving this email it means one or more of your stories has made it onto the long list for the Raven Contest. . . Pulp Literature is a high-quality…
SHORT STORY IN THE RED TUQUE FINALS!

Jan 17, 2015

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Ace Baker

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A short story of mine is in the finals for Red Tuque’s “Canadian Tales of the Mysterious” contest. That means it’s one of thirteen stories chosen to be published in an anthology later this year. Right now, they’re choosing the placings, so I won’t say the title of my story just yet, to keep the…
Pulp Literature (and Ace Baker) at VCon!

Oct 4, 2014

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Ace Baker

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Last night, I finished work at 6:30, flew across the Port Mann bridge, and made it to the VCon book signing event by 7:00. VCon looked like a bar scene from Star Wars–many interesting characters, and these ones weren’t in between pages of a book! Wandering the halls were fantasy and sci-fi characters, steampunkers,…
Hummingbird Flash Fiction Contest: “WFF” is an editor’s pick!

Sep 15, 2014

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Ace Baker

in short stories, writer ace baker

Well, the results are in for Pulp Literature’s flash fiction Hummingbird contest. First, I was contacted that I was one of twelve finalists. Then, the results came out today. My story, “WFF,” wasn’t the winner or runner-up; those accolades go to Rob Taylor’s “Here I Lay Down My Heart,” and Daniela Elza’s “Waiting for Twilight,”…
Putting myself out there…writing goals for Oct 2014 to Oct 2015!

Jul 31, 2014

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Ace Baker

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Ok, a bit of a heart to heart post today, from one writer to another. Yesterday, I wrote about the benefits of journaling and setting writing goals. Today, I’ll show you what I mean by that. Here are my writing goals for my upcoming writing year: 1. Find a GOOD agent. 2. Write a new…
SUMMER OF BLADES is one of three finalists in a novel contest!

Jul 18, 2014

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Ace Baker

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OK, SUPER EXCITING NEWS! My novel, a YA Medieval Fantasy, Summer of Blades, is one of three finalists in a contest put on by Grasmere Publishing. The winner gets his or her novel published. In other words, I am literally two books away from fulfilling a dream–having a novel in print! It gets…
Vandermeer on dissection for fiction writers

Jun 18, 2014

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Ace Baker

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First of all, I picked up a copy of Jeff Vandermeer’s book, Wonderbook, and I’m having trouble deciding whether it’s a book about writing or a work of art–amazing! But on page 42, I read the following: To grow as a fiction writer, you absolutely must engage in some dissection of stories, your own and…