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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 things out on their...
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 obstacles and conflict. I also have...
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. It's definitely a long...
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 salvageable, just not by tomorrow. The...
*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 actually written...
Immortal Gifts invites readers to re-evaluate the meanings of things such as life, death, freedom, hate and love from the first page. Katherine Villyard manages to capture some of the most poignant questions we ask ourselves as we go through our individual lives. Is it worth being able to live forever if, in the end, we’ll lose the ones we love to mortality? Is Death really the ultimate enemy to life, or is death just life’s misunderstood old friend? To stop hate, do we need to restrict our freedoms? This book makes readers ask and answer tough questions not only about the characters and plotline, but about their own beliefs, understandings, and dreams.