Publishifamacation
On the advice and encouragement of one 
limiinal, I believe I'm going to get down to business and focus on getting some short stories set up to send out for publishment. Where exactly I will send them out, with only a twenty dollar bill, a sack lunch, and a kick in the ass, I have no clue. None what so ever.
But, on the other hand, I do have an idea of which ones I want to send out. While not rinse and scrubbed to shininess (yet), the ones I'm planning on refreshing and sending out are the Lightning's Child excerpt and this whatever it is.
The LC excerpt is gonna be a bit strange, because I'm not sure how to expand it much more (or even if I should expand it (quick check... it's only 1100 words, I may need to inflat it a bit)) without losing the wistful yet somber tone it has before plunging into full wangsting. It needs a bit of clearing up, but to me it holds pretty strong as is. But giving it another go over won't hurt. And I think I found a way to eat my cake and have it too; I said I thought that LC was going to be a third-narrative, and the first-person was just for fun and mind set, but I think I may start different sections of the story with first-person blurbs. They're fun to write, and could help connect to Nathan more.
As for the other story, it would actually be really easy to expand on. There's a lot left unsaid (and at barely 1400 words, more could definitely be said) so it's not like I'd have to dig deep to add anything. But what exactly I could add, and which direction it'd go in, is really up in the air. Because, looking at it, it'd be really easy to cut loose a bit and erotica it up a bit. It might limit where it could be sent out to, but I'm okay with that. Playboy still accept story submissions, don't they? You know, for the people who get them just for the articles?
At least working on these will help me keep my mind focused on things other than what it's currently knee deep in.
limiinal, I believe I'm going to get down to business and focus on getting some short stories set up to send out for publishment. Where exactly I will send them out, with only a twenty dollar bill, a sack lunch, and a kick in the ass, I have no clue. None what so ever.
But, on the other hand, I do have an idea of which ones I want to send out. While not rinse and scrubbed to shininess (yet), the ones I'm planning on refreshing and sending out are the Lightning's Child excerpt and this whatever it is.
The LC excerpt is gonna be a bit strange, because I'm not sure how to expand it much more (or even if I should expand it (quick check... it's only 1100 words, I may need to inflat it a bit)) without losing the wistful yet somber tone it has before plunging into full wangsting. It needs a bit of clearing up, but to me it holds pretty strong as is. But giving it another go over won't hurt. And I think I found a way to eat my cake and have it too; I said I thought that LC was going to be a third-narrative, and the first-person was just for fun and mind set, but I think I may start different sections of the story with first-person blurbs. They're fun to write, and could help connect to Nathan more.
As for the other story, it would actually be really easy to expand on. There's a lot left unsaid (and at barely 1400 words, more could definitely be said) so it's not like I'd have to dig deep to add anything. But what exactly I could add, and which direction it'd go in, is really up in the air. Because, looking at it, it'd be really easy to cut loose a bit and erotica it up a bit. It might limit where it could be sent out to, but I'm okay with that. Playboy still accept story submissions, don't they? You know, for the people who get them just for the articles?
At least working on these will help me keep my mind focused on things other than what it's currently knee deep in.