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short stories
Jan. 18th, 2005 08:44 pmOn Saturday I finished the rewrite on "El Remedio". There's probably one more quick rewrite involved and then Ta Da! it's out the door.
This week my plan was to deal with "Defending the Resurrectionist". I did some of that today. There's enough there for work tomorrow, too, but after that I'm going to need another project. That doesn't mean I'm done on this story, however. A very cool friend of mine who used to be in one of my on-line writing groups has asked to look at it, and I'm hoping she may be able to help me with it a little.
"Defending the Resurrectionist" is the kind of story that you have to pay attention to to figure out what's going on. I don't want to make understanding the story hard for the reader, but I'm not into letting it be facile or vomiting all the information they need right up front on the screen so it's an easy read. I've had a few people in one of my writing groups say that's exactly what I should do; the reader doesn't want to think -- they just want to be entertained. I know I'm not a great writer and that I have a lot to learn, but that just feels wrong to me, and it feels wrong for the story. I have respect for this friend of mine who's taking a look at the story. I trust her judgment. We'll see what she says.
Honestly, I wish there was someone a bit more experienced out there who I could show it to to get their input, but I don't have that. So, I'll make due with the resources I do have. And it's a good learning experience.
After I'm done with "Defending the Resurrectionist", I'll either work on editing another story, perhaps "Bison's Child", or start writing a new story. The original plan for January was to go through the stories already written that still need some work and get them as finished up as possible. After that I was going to write new ones, let them sit around for a bit, and then work on them over the coming year as time permits and as necessary. I wrote "El Remedio" in April and "Defending the Resurrectionist" in July, I believe. Both needed to sit around for a while and breathe before I could really spiff them up. But then there's "I Dream of Strawberries", which I wrote in about four hours and has been published. Of course, I'd been mulling that story over since the spring or summer of 2002.
We've had quite a cold here, and it's certainly made writing and thinking about writing a bit of a challenge, but that's not necessarily a bad thing.
This week my plan was to deal with "Defending the Resurrectionist". I did some of that today. There's enough there for work tomorrow, too, but after that I'm going to need another project. That doesn't mean I'm done on this story, however. A very cool friend of mine who used to be in one of my on-line writing groups has asked to look at it, and I'm hoping she may be able to help me with it a little.
"Defending the Resurrectionist" is the kind of story that you have to pay attention to to figure out what's going on. I don't want to make understanding the story hard for the reader, but I'm not into letting it be facile or vomiting all the information they need right up front on the screen so it's an easy read. I've had a few people in one of my writing groups say that's exactly what I should do; the reader doesn't want to think -- they just want to be entertained. I know I'm not a great writer and that I have a lot to learn, but that just feels wrong to me, and it feels wrong for the story. I have respect for this friend of mine who's taking a look at the story. I trust her judgment. We'll see what she says.
Honestly, I wish there was someone a bit more experienced out there who I could show it to to get their input, but I don't have that. So, I'll make due with the resources I do have. And it's a good learning experience.
After I'm done with "Defending the Resurrectionist", I'll either work on editing another story, perhaps "Bison's Child", or start writing a new story. The original plan for January was to go through the stories already written that still need some work and get them as finished up as possible. After that I was going to write new ones, let them sit around for a bit, and then work on them over the coming year as time permits and as necessary. I wrote "El Remedio" in April and "Defending the Resurrectionist" in July, I believe. Both needed to sit around for a while and breathe before I could really spiff them up. But then there's "I Dream of Strawberries", which I wrote in about four hours and has been published. Of course, I'd been mulling that story over since the spring or summer of 2002.
We've had quite a cold here, and it's certainly made writing and thinking about writing a bit of a challenge, but that's not necessarily a bad thing.
