Story submitted

[nontacitare]

It's done! I've written and submitted a fantasy story for the Sundered Sea anthology. If I want to be a writer I need to start collecting more rejection slips. ;-) drackan27, jayene, and wishesofastar, if I hadn't procrastinated so much I would have hit you up to review it, but with the January 31st deadline looming, there was no time

Comments

[jayene]

A thousand times Yay!!!!!! That's a really big step. I'll keep my fingers crossed for you.

[wishesofastar]

Congrats on finishing, first off. And submitting! Good luck!

[drackan27]

Glad to hear you got your story turned in on time. Let me know when/if you hear back anything about your submitted story and I will do the same if I hear anything about mine.

[nontacitare]

I will do so. Even if it doesn't get accepted, it was fun getting back into writing.

Oh, and remember how my first attempt blew past the maximum word limit without anyone dying? My second version was a very tight story which came in 500 words under the minimum word limit - I had to go back and actually describe settings and people to get it to 3,000 words.

[drackan27]

Wow, that's quite a change. I remember you fearing that you'd have trouble coming under 6,000 words even with the murder taking place at the very start.

Of course, my story didn't go the way I expected either. I went with a concept I came up with on January 30. Out of the four story ideas I came up with, the fourth one was the best. It came in at ten to fifteen words under the maximum limit, and I did wish that I had a few hundred more words to work with as I felt the final battle was kind of rushed.

[nontacitare]

Oh, I hit the limit without anyone dying first time around. I was exploring what it would be like for an Elven family who'd lived on a ship their entire life to move to a city on the land, had mages engage in philosophical debates about the nature of magic and life, etc. and no one died. Not very promising for a fantasy story.

So I retold the same story from a very different perspective - I began with the murder. Completely changed the pacing.