So my plan to write twelve short stories in twelve months continues. Yesterday I sent the first two for the year off to local lit journal JAAM.
Story #3, promised to readers a month ago, has been mothballed – it just doesn’t work and I don’t want to send anyone to sleep. I need to totally rethink what I’ve done there and see if I can salvage anything. There’s one really cool idea in it but everything else feels wrong and the cool idea isn’t leveraged well enough. Gah.
Story #4 is in progress. This one I actually sat down and made some notes about in advance of writing the first word, a level of planning that is rare for me. It helped me find the right way into the idea, I’m sure, but I’m now second-guessing where I thought I was going. Still, I think there’s promise in it. To be continued.
There is no story #5. Yet.
Overall, I’m pretty happy with my progress. I could definitely be going faster but it does feel like things are getting done. So that’s good.
Meanwhile, I’m meeting with comics artist girl for an hour every Monday to work on page design and tighten up scripts. It is fruitful. I wish I could draw as well as she does.
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Is #2 what you sent me last or is that #3?
What’s this about comic artist girl? I don’t recall reading about this before…
Say hi to comic artist girl from me. I’m quite keen to see some of her artwork 🙂
Timb: #2 you saw. No-one has seen #3 or #4 yet.
Jon: it has been a slow process… http://www.additiverich.com/morgue/archives/002426.html
Matt: will do 🙂
would also like to see some of this art. the only taster you have put on does not come up with security settings.
Happy birthday ~m. Arthur sends his regards too, and says its fortunate that there is enough birthday today for the both of you!