first look
So 4 days after I finished the first story, I read it through, without stopping, from start to finish, quite unsure what I would find. All in all, it's OK. Not great, but salvageable with enough editing. I say it's at 50%. After i finished, I made 2 pages of notes about what needed to be fleshed out, edited down, re-parsed, removed and the random points that need to be made to make it more cohesive. It was strange, not as bad as I expected but a bit more frameworky than I wanted. I still cant fathom how it got to 10K. I hate this length, the not quite novella, too long short story. I think my strength might lie in the long form, if I could create a story that interested me enough to stick it out for 200,000 words... I've made 2 attempts at novel writing and both fell dead when my plot ran out... Yes, I was naive to think that I could get away without only half a plot... Ha, not as smart as I thought!
On an inspirational note I recieved, Storm Constantine's "Hienama", yesterday. She is my writing idol. Storm Constantine and Mary Renault. I've read Storm since college and she is the one author who I sometimes wish I was. I admit to be a bit of a Constantine Cultist. I haven't stared it yet I just occasionally open to a random page and read a paragraph for inspiration. When I read someone who can put down prose so effortlessly, I strive to do better. Storm was the first writer who read something I had written and told me it was good. I've been trying to live up to that ever since.
One day I hope to achieve it. Okay I got to do my quota... My reluctant to be born story calls me back...
hum
denki
On an inspirational note I recieved, Storm Constantine's "Hienama", yesterday. She is my writing idol. Storm Constantine and Mary Renault. I've read Storm since college and she is the one author who I sometimes wish I was. I admit to be a bit of a Constantine Cultist. I haven't stared it yet I just occasionally open to a random page and read a paragraph for inspiration. When I read someone who can put down prose so effortlessly, I strive to do better. Storm was the first writer who read something I had written and told me it was good. I've been trying to live up to that ever since.
One day I hope to achieve it. Okay I got to do my quota... My reluctant to be born story calls me back...
hum
denki