Aug 23, 2008 09:30
The weather changed drastically from the hot-hot-hot to a few days of clouds and some showers. It was such a sudden change, it felt like fall. The sun was back yesterday and today. It's around eighty and not hot-hot-hot. I'm not ready for fall so I'm glad the sun is back.
I sent off my second story for the workshop during my lunch break on Friday. A far future story at 1600 words. I don't feel that good about it but it's done!
Next up: continual reading of stories from the issues of Asimov's. I expect to be critiquing a bunch of stories for the workshop in a week or two. Next week I'll work on the short story I had completed before getting the workshop assignments. It's a fantasy (contemporary), not science fiction, so I'll send that off to Realms of Fantasy.
Since the short story workshop starts on September 11, I think I'll keep focusing on short stories. I'll write another one before now and then. If I have time, I'll write a second one. I'm enjoying this focus, thinking about conflict and character motivations and striving to finish a story. I think I might be getting a handle on conflict.
After the workshop, however, the novel work must begin again. Because that's one story that also needs to be finished.
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