Critters!
My “just not right” story is up at Critters and has already received three critiques. Unsurprisingly, the critiques suggest that I’ve again fallen prey to my most common uncritiqued story problem. I try not to spoon feed readers and let them figure...Cliché story epiphany!
I just realized this morning why the (former) cliché (challenge) story is moving so slowly: that universe is underdeveloped. The SO mentioned Eric Flint and his 1632 anthologies, and somehow that made me realize that no one could write a story in the (former)...Backsliding
Sigh. I’ve backslid. Yes, I’m back to my old evil ways of several stories started at once. Oh, well. At least I’m actually writing on them. The former cliché story proceeds slowly, but it’s chugging along. I’m putting in more...Hmmmmm.
I was talking to the SO in the car this morning on the way to work about our respective writing projects. He thinks that the problem I’m having with the story formerly for the cliché challenge is that it’s not a short story, it’s a novel....Alas, alack, and woe.
I don’t think I’m going to finish the cliché story in time to send it to Scalzi. I’m barfy, and the story isn’t finished. At this point, the story lacks conflict, and it just kind of stops rather than ends. I think it’s...*gives latest story the hairy eyeball*
The first story in the one story a week plan is done, and let me tell you, it’s just not right. 😉 Alas, no, it is not the cliché story. I thought I would have more luck with that one next week, while I’m out of town and bored. I’ve never...Plan C?
This may be more like it. It’s Jay Lake’s “one story a week” rules. In short: 1) Write a story every week. 2) Finish everything you start. 3) Don’t self-critique while you’re writing. 4) Work on one thing at a time. The only thing...Plan B
Um, yeah. 9pm is apparently too late. Also, I apparently need a wordcount. There’s that wacky time when I get home, while dinner is cooking; I’d be fresher then. The Athlete’s Diary convinces me that I need to modify the Motivational Spreadsheet of...Write is the Plan the Plan is Fiction
Every day at 9pm, except Fridays because that’s Battlestar Galactica, there will be fiction. I can brainstorm, outline, edit, write first drafts, etc., but there will be fiction at 9pm, and I must spend an hour on this. The me has spoken. I considered a daily...Subscribe
