origfic: Twelve Ells of Wool

[jenna_thorn]

Beadslut's going to kill me. I'm supposed to be working on the Big!Bang, but I made the mistake of checking my flist and a prompt caught me and Aigh!

A published author is running a fic contest in her journal and is anyone surprised that “I have spun twelve ells of wool. You have killed a man. A fine morning's work for us both." proved

Comments

[firynze]

That's beautiful. Truly. I could almost hear the spindle, smell the wool...

(am I a bad person for desperately wanting you to publish it on Catchn, both for selfish reasons and to send it a little further out into the world, too?)

[jenna_thorn]

Quite honestly, it hadn't occured to me. I don't write original fiction, you see, and I've too many books on my beside table to read now to consider adding more to a virtual bedside stack so I've not explored Catchn, but I'd be happy to help you, personally, in any way I can.

Give me a day or so to research and explore the site and set up an account and all that, since I really honestly cannot do so today or any time soon. I'll get it up as soon as I can figure out how.

That's pretty much how I join archives, too. If they are simple enough for me to sucessfully navigate them, then I can use them, but they have to be pretty darn user-friendly. If not, I stay here on LJ. I was invited to join an HP archive before and had to respond, after multiple attempts, that I'd love to, but I couldn't figure out the interface.

[firynze]

Take your time! I just like goading good writers into using the site. :-p

I like to think that Catchn is pretty user-friendly - the whole point was to create a clear, easy-to-navigate/search system for finding original short fiction; secondary goal was to create a way to get feedback and build a readership for short fiction. I think I've accomplished the first, and it's down to getting active users to accomplish the second. Community tools only work when you have a community! Which is why I'm slowly trying to build a readership and get some critical mass going. :-D

That, and the nice thing about Catchn is that the fiction on it is SHORT. Usually quite short. Good for nice little nubs to break up your day, or when you're between books on the towering bedside stack.

[jenna_thorn]

Hey, just FYI, I did set up an account. I put this one and the two other orig fic up. Neither are really stories, one's just a kiss and the other is so short that I fear it doesn't make sense to anyone who isn't looking at it through my eyes, but we can leave that up to teh approval process. I figure if it doesn't make sense to the approval editor, she'll not pass it through the screening process.

Anyway, like I said, your numbers should be up by one, two, or possibly three. 8-)

[cluegirl]

Guess what.

You could sell this to ANY flashfiction outfit.
It is that good. I am totally not kidding.
Damn, woman! See what you can do when you don't get into your own way?

[jenna_thorn]

You are a sweetie, but I've learned many many many lessons from you, of which one is that I don't have the temperment to try to sell my work.

But thank you for the thought. Sometimes words come, and sometimes they plod along and sometimes I have to pull them out one by one and right now, I'd rather cut open my arm and bleed on this keyboard than try one more time to communicate effectively with the jerks who have shut me down already once.

But I get paid for fighting with them. Writing fic just feeds my heart, not the kid and the dog.

But thank you for reminding me that I'm more than what sits in my desk chair.

[tenar10r]

That was wonderful. I liked the way that you showed that a family's/tribe's actions weight heavily not only on the members who go to war also but the ones who remain behind in quiet support.

[jenna_thorn]

Thanks. Both for the compliment and for seeing what I was trying to say. ♥

[beadslut]

You're grounded, young lady.

[jenna_thorn]

Eep!

Good thing we've got all month, eh?

[amanuensis1]

Oh, YES. That's so very cool! Yes, of course I see why that was an irresistable prompt!

Thank you.

[jenna_thorn]

♥

My buttons, they are large and brightly painted. 8-)