Yikes. Juvenilia.
I was unpacking a box and discovered a piece of my own juvenilia. I was probably about 17 when I wrote that tale of a pompous unreliable narrator on an unsuccessful diplomatic mission. The characterization was what you’d expect from a teenager, the gender...Fitting it all in.
Jen had some suggestions for the nightmare story that I think are really good, but I’ve been busy at work so I’m having trouble convincing myself to do the rewrite/edit. I feel guilty about that, but not guilty enough to actually write. Which may mean that...first draft-o-rama
I finished the first draft of the nightmare story, and I really think I’m on to something. And so does the SO, one small quibble aside. I need to edit, obviously, and editing can wait until tomorrow. But I am pleased. Very pleased. I’m not sure if I need...Yes, it’s been awhile…
You noticed that, too? 😉 When I moved, I sent change of address forms to everywhere I had stories. (You know, back in September.) Well, around New Year’s, one of them said they might have lost my story, and have not written back to confirm this. Judging by their...More rejectomancy…
Alas, JJA says I didn’t “grab” his interest. Woe. Alas, alack, and woe. I took this as a sign to reshuffle the scenes so the opening scene was the one with the blood. Why, yes, I do feel a bit silly editing my story after getting what is basically a...Wow.
I decided that my enthusiasm for in medias res had led me to start this story too late. There was a large amount of narrative summary/exposition that I thought might work better as scenes. 1400 words later… Yeah. And there’s a lot more narrative summary in...Sigh.
I’m trying to be all positive and stuff here about the writing process. Okay, no, I’m trying to be all positive in life about the selling fiction process. Anyway. I’m finding really long turnarounds to be much more discouraging than quick nos....How did Thanksgiving get to be next week?
No, really. I want to know! My mother is coming into town next week. She wants to help me unpack boxes. [Insert imaginary superbeing here] knows that I need the help desperately, but I hope she wants to do fun things, too. Partly because I want to do fun things. Fun...Is it wrong?
Is it wrong to be slightly envious of my fiction for being better travelled than me? I’ve never been sad about a story going to New Jersey instead of me, but I’m about to send a story to England. I’ve been to England, but it was in the late 1970s and...Subscribe
