Also: when I take the time aside to think about it, I am scared shitless at the idea that I hear back about getting a story published (again) and I can't stand the waiting. I apparently should hear some time at the end of this week, but that could change. For now I'm operating under the idea that no news is good news, because if my story totally ( Read more... )

FIVE THOUSAND WORDS! TAKE THAT!

...yeah, so I got the story down to exactly 5,000 words. I didn't think I would...but life's surprising at times. I'm just finishing my last read-through, and then sending it away...

I think I've noted before that the night before a chemistry test, I never seem to study. Instead, I get distracted by good writing and stay up to ungodly hours of the night, needing to finish one more page, one more paragraph ( Read more... )

I don't think there's much else for me to do with the story. I have a few more people who said they'd read it, but once they're done there's not much else for me to fix about it. If I look through the entire thing again, it really will cause some terrible immune reaction that will induce a horrible sickness ( Read more... )

Stuff I really need to get done includes ( Read more... )

The problem with me and writing is that I'm a perfectionist.  Perfect example of this:  I made 3 typos in the first sentence of this post, and instead of just leaving them for the spellcheck to catch, I had to go back right after I made each one and fix it.  It means I don't forget, but it also means that I lose my train of thought, so that the ( Read more... )

I've been thinking lately about a conversation I had with Matt Miller, my teacher at Stanford over the summer, about the mind of the writing and how it differs from the mind of the author.  It started as a discussion of first sentences, and their importance.  We had just been required to write 10 potential first sentences for stories we were ( Read more... )

So my story is arguing with itself as to who should narrate.  I've got two candidates for who needs to do it, but I don't think I'll be able to keep it a "short" story if I allow them both to narrate.  Besides, for the majority of the story, the two characters tell about the same deeds.

Really, 90% of the story needs to be told from Hypatia's POV ( Read more... )

There was a time when I used this journal for poetry. I wish I was still living in that sort of time, but I'm not, and I just have to deal with it ( Read more... )