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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[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.