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ravenswept) wrote2010-09-26 08:58 pm
ravenswept) wrote2010-09-26 08:58 pm
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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.
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Duotrope's Digest helps me massively in searching for places to submit to. Hell, I even found a Cthulhu erotica publication through it. :D
The two pieces you picked feel really strong even in their unscrubbed state, especially the LC excerpt.
"At least working on these will help me keep my mind focused on things other than what it's currently knee deep in."
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i guess advice would be to get your hand on some short stories and 'how to write short stories' books and see what you can do. i think 1100 words a is a bit too teency. what you have there is more of a snippet than a story but you know already that padding it for padding's sake wont work, every single sentence needs to be there for a reason.
anyway on the switching tenses thing, in the Bartimeus trilogy Bartimeus is a geenie and all his scenes are 1st person and they alternate with the *obligatory pre teen boy who discovers magic's* scenes which are done in 3rd person.
a lot of people liked this, a lot of people found it annoying. but in your case, 1st and 3rd pov for the SAME character might not go over very well unless you can really make it work and show the reason for it.
Normally, when I want the reader to specifically know what's in my character's head I'll do something like:
'Oh God, is she gonna shut up soon?' Hayley sighed to herself. 'Every time she does this I start getting a headache. And just the way she has her hair up in those stupid braids. What is she? Twelve?'
"Hayley are you even listening to me?" Noreen frowned at her.
"Yes, yeah." Hayley sat up straighter. 'Shit, busted!' "Yeah, hey uh... I don't know Noreen, I really can't tell if Justin likes you or not... Why don't you like, just try talking to him or something?" 'Instead of talking to me about it!' she added silently.
i don't really know if 'single quotes plus italics' is the right way to go about indicating thought rather than speech but i think the context makes it pretty clear...