Briefly, before we begin... I am having a moment of anger and disbelief so many people do not love the idea of The Carnie's Conspiracy. And am lamenting what I could be doing wrong...

On the other side of things, this morning I wrote a piece of flash (1000 words style...I need to cut out 47 words, if we're being strict here) titled:

The Fox of the ( Read more... )

This is a meme; it was more interesting this time around. It's partly that I'm doing better with opening lines, especially for short stories, and partly that I've been doing a lot of short stories.

List the first lines of your last twenty stories. See if you find any patterns. (And flist, I'd love your opinions on patterns you notice.)

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Frex, I'm fragile ( Read more... )

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I am printing a new version of The Carnie's Conspiracy!

This has new material, which significantly changes the feel without being a reconstruction. I hope it will fly.

This story has been a comparative pleasure to work on.
It may just be that the other projects I've tried to revise have been Purgatory, but it's nice to actually be *capable* to edit ( Read more... )

I think yesterday I had burned through all my nervous energy becoming a submissions fiend, and was left just with the nerves.

Today I have no desire to see Bora Bora, especially not with a stranger.
Instead, I sent a story out for the...nine, tenth time. Wore a baseball hat for the first time in probably 7 years. Started typing in the new scene for ( Read more... )

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gjules  did a brilliant initial critique for me. I think I need to work on some of the elements a little bit more, but I am ready for some other viewpoints.

The Carnie's Conspiracy, Second Draft!
Anyone interested?

Here's some more about it:

( Molly and her little brother have run away from the circus. )

I'd like to publicly congratulate myself on finishing the Conspiracy of Cons series, in first draft. ^...^

I wrote the last line of The Return of Mr. Birch this morning at 1.

I probably won't feel the triumph until I've typed it in, getting a chance to reread it a bit, but it feels really good to be freed up to concentrate on the *first* book's ( Read more... )

I'm working through the end of The Return of Mr. Birch ( Read more... )