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Madylen's letter from the Orchard.
A piece of an in-progress story which likely won't appear in the story itself in full. Madylen Brunn is a young woman (13 or so) who has recently departed her home town in order to stay a summer with her uncle on his newly-purchased orchard and decide whether she will attend a prestigious, if somewhat remote, academy for girls in the area. This ( Read more... ) -
Nine Minutes
RIGHT UNDER THE GUN. Challenge for Brigit's Flame. Spec fic. 733 words. This is a concept for the end of a longer story. It's loose, but I couldn't get it to gel in complete form before the deadline and I'd rather write something than nothing so here goes, and let's hope I have more of it in the next week, eh?
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Watch, draft 2.
For week one at brigits_flame. Flash fiction. 751 words. Quickie edit before the deadline tonight.
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Women's Work
For a brigits_flame mini contest. 100 word prompt, 'Manual'. Nonfiction ( Read more... ) -
Entire.
I cannot reiterate how much more enjoyable my free time is when I have a job. I'm enjoying work; it's nice to get out, nice not to be alone with my thoughts all twenty four hours of the day, nice to have a strong and reasonable impetus to put aside all of those other things (however pressing they are to my personal psyche) to focus on something ( Read more... ) -
Plot thoughts.
Hmm. So, I have Children of Men on loan from Netflix this week. I watched (and enjoyed) most of it the other night. But I sortof... wandered away and didn't watch the end. It was playing for a while in the background after I had wandered away... so I have a pretty good idea of what was happening through most of the end of the flick. I haven't ( Read more... ) -
PS:
“It has often been said
there’s so much to be read,
you never can cram
all those words in your head.
So the writer who breeds
more words than he needs
is making a chore
for the reader who reads.
That’s why my belief is
the briefer the brief is,
the greater the sigh
of the reader’s relief is.”
- Dr. Seuss
Posted from writing, psTwo kinds of writers.
"A publisher suggests there are two kinds of writers." http://behlerblog.wordpress.com/2009/10/05/hobbyists-and-serious-sts/Read more... )Hoping to snag a reader.
Dear everyone: I'm thinking about submitting a short story to a science fiction magazine some time in the next week or so. It's done, about 2500 words long (7 pages double spaced), and I could use someone to give it a look over and give me some feedback (real feedback - I need to know what's weak, what doesn't make sense, and where the story is ( Read more... )