Friday Rants and Raves - April 25

[sarillia]

Happy Friday everyone! I haven't done this in a while but we're back. Hopefully you all have lots of good things to talk about , but I want to hear about the bad stuff too if you need someone to commiserate with. How has your writing life been lately?

Continuing with my ongoing presentation of the pictures in my "inspiration" collection, today we have James Skelton Smith's Courting the Moon.

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[agilebrit]

My bear story is out in the Far Orbit anthology--which is on sale for under a buck right now, so grab it while it's hot! Greg Benford is the headline author for that one.

I'm waiting impatiently for the Writers of the Future results. My dream "response" day is the day where I get a call from WotF, a snail mail acceptance from F&SF, and an email acceptance from Streets of Shadows. All three of those have Ben stories, so it would be a mad confluence. And hugely unlikely. But I can dream.

I'm working my novel synopsis in preparation for going to MisCon over Memorial Day--DAW Books is guesting, so I'm hoping to do a pitch. All my shorts are driving me crazy right now.

[sarillia]

Wow, you're doing great! You're so much more productive than I am. :p

[agilebrit]

Well, I'm laboring under a deadline, here, so I have to be productive. ;)

I managed some brainstorming during the Salt Lake ComicCon FanX and realized that the Current Thing is probably going to be novella-sized by the time it's done. This managed to kill any drive I had to write it, sadly. I don't need to spend two months' worth of blood, sweat, tears, and swearing on yet another stupid-length story that no one will buy.

Which is not to say I won't finish it, because this is a story I've wanted to tell for awhile--and needs to be told. But it's on a back burner while I figure out exactly how to get an ending that both satisfies the reader and doesn't leave one of the characters absolutely wrecked at the end.

[sarillia]

I'm only just beginning to make those decisions. It used to be all about what I wanted to write but since I decided that I want to try to sell my work I've been trying to pick out which of my ideas might be more salable.