Writing Updatia
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ellyssianI finished the first draft of Her Tears Tasted of the River Acheron - the story formerly, temporarily, titled as Mount Auburn. After finishing, I debated on the title for a while, and finally went with the first line of the story - something that I've done in poetry, but I don't think I've done with fiction.
It has changed in tone and subject from what I had expected - one of the characters was not who I thought they were, and, sadly, the other characters live to regret that. Or don't live, depending on which one you're talking about. And the ghouls had to keep as quiet as possible, so as to avoid attracting unwanted attention.
If anyone would like to give it a once-over, let me know. I've got a couple of questions of opinion that I'd like to ask after it's read - although, if I think about it for a while, I might make some changes in the way I tell the central part of the tale before I get any feedback on it.
Just for the record, I'm looking for both general and specific feedback - I'm not expecting line editing, just comments about what works and doesn't work for a handful of readers.
I've got one copy of the earlier short story, Full Moon Poetry, out there - two, if you count the one Deb is looking at. I'd like to get at least one other set of opinions on it before wrapping up all the feedback and getting it ready to submit for publication. For the record, Full Moon Poetry is not poetry - it is a fantasy fiction piece, with a title that seems to be misleading, and, thus, will probably be changed before it goes prime time.
Until I get that feedback, the only story I have floating around is the anachrotech Mad Max one. I've been listening in on the COALS list about steam power in Australia. I want to have a really good grasp on the trials and tribulations of 1) running a steam powered vehicle; and 2) doing so in Australia. Although this will probably be a short story - at least to introduce the character and setting - this will take a lot of research to get it right. Who knows, maybe a novel-length story concept will appear, with all the novel-length information gathering.
Oh, if you extend "story" from "short fiction" to "novel," I suppose that's not the only one I've got rambling around. I still have Kryptos to work on - the alternate history/anachrotech piece I started many, many moons ago. I suppose I could tie that into the world of the Mad Max story, but Kryptos is actually much higher tech at a much earlier time. The feeling of the two worlds is also very different - a Victorian Western vs. a Hellenistic Renaissance.
It has changed in tone and subject from what I had expected - one of the characters was not who I thought they were, and, sadly, the other characters live to regret that. Or don't live, depending on which one you're talking about. And the ghouls had to keep as quiet as possible, so as to avoid attracting unwanted attention.
If anyone would like to give it a once-over, let me know. I've got a couple of questions of opinion that I'd like to ask after it's read - although, if I think about it for a while, I might make some changes in the way I tell the central part of the tale before I get any feedback on it.
Just for the record, I'm looking for both general and specific feedback - I'm not expecting line editing, just comments about what works and doesn't work for a handful of readers.
I've got one copy of the earlier short story, Full Moon Poetry, out there - two, if you count the one Deb is looking at. I'd like to get at least one other set of opinions on it before wrapping up all the feedback and getting it ready to submit for publication. For the record, Full Moon Poetry is not poetry - it is a fantasy fiction piece, with a title that seems to be misleading, and, thus, will probably be changed before it goes prime time.
Until I get that feedback, the only story I have floating around is the anachrotech Mad Max one. I've been listening in on the COALS list about steam power in Australia. I want to have a really good grasp on the trials and tribulations of 1) running a steam powered vehicle; and 2) doing so in Australia. Although this will probably be a short story - at least to introduce the character and setting - this will take a lot of research to get it right. Who knows, maybe a novel-length story concept will appear, with all the novel-length information gathering.
Oh, if you extend "story" from "short fiction" to "novel," I suppose that's not the only one I've got rambling around. I still have Kryptos to work on - the alternate history/anachrotech piece I started many, many moons ago. I suppose I could tie that into the world of the Mad Max story, but Kryptos is actually much higher tech at a much earlier time. The feeling of the two worlds is also very different - a Victorian Western vs. a Hellenistic Renaissance.
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