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swan_tower) wrote2013-04-28 01:33 am
swan_tower) wrote2013-04-28 01:33 am
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story!
It took me substantially longer than expected (the last scene was an absolute bear to write), but I just finished "To Rise No More."
Needs revision, of course, but right now, that doesn't matter. What matters is that I've managed to write a short story! And not even one that was spoken for before I wrote it. The last seven things I wrote sold on their first trip out the door, because they were either solicited by editors or very nearly so, i.e. I knew that if I wrote them, then so-and-so was extremely likely to buy the result. Which isn't a bad position to be in, of course -- but it's less good when you have to use that as a motivation to actually get the thing done. This one, I wrote because I wanted to.
Hopefully somebody will buy the result. :-)
Needs revision, of course, but right now, that doesn't matter. What matters is that I've managed to write a short story! And not even one that was spoken for before I wrote it. The last seven things I wrote sold on their first trip out the door, because they were either solicited by editors or very nearly so, i.e. I knew that if I wrote them, then so-and-so was extremely likely to buy the result. Which isn't a bad position to be in, of course -- but it's less good when you have to use that as a motivation to actually get the thing done. This one, I wrote because I wanted to.
Hopefully somebody will buy the result. :-)