story!

[swan_tower]

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. :-)

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[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

I'll scribble down something vaguely like an outline if I can see where the story's going, but can't write it that minute (which happened with this story). That way I won't forget it in the interim. But outlining isn't a required step. Then I write, usually straight through -- in Wordperfect, which makes some people go "huh?," some people laugh hysterically, and the few other WP users still out there fist-bump me in solidarity. :-) I generally have friends read and comment on the draft, though if I feel good enough about the result, I sometimes just send it out without critique.