Thanks. Maybe if you have an interesting and brief thought about how the story came about or a reason you feel connected to the material(say you're retelling a family legend, or it's in a garden and your mother taught you to garden.) Of course that you're married and a mom(Not in that Laura Schlesinger way...poor fucked-up Deryk.)
No. And yes. It's always sudden.
Tara ,'Storyteller'
The Great Write Way, Act Three: Where's the gun?
A place for Buffistas to discuss, beta and otherwise deal and dish on their non-fan fiction projects.
erikaj - May 25, 2011 9:22:41 am PDT #4422 of 6690
Always Anti-fascist!
hippocampus - May 25, 2011 10:39:12 am PDT #4423 of 6690
not your mom's socks.
erikaj - May 25, 2011 12:05:40 pm PDT #4424 of 6690
Always Anti-fascist!
Sounds like a plan, Sox. Right now, I'm having a "Write what you know," type discussion with an editor I know. I sent him a story, which he likes, but he also thinks with a few tweaks I can take the disability stuff out of it and publish it in some ritzy journal or something and have some agent begging for my attention.(Dude, have you ever met an agent?) Also, I don't really think that you can stand a crip character on her feet and get an able-bodied character. I mean, I could give her a phobia, or OCD, or something like that. Something that doesn't show as much. Or I could make her a loyal caretaker, and that's why she's been held back from the fun the other girls had. Limitation is kind of what this story is about. Also, though I can write about able-bodied characters(and do...I live in an able-bodied world, after all,) I wonder when I would be passing, trying to do that all the time. I have already written more sex scenes than I've been a party in, and the older I get, the less comfortable that becomes.(Not that I'm asking anyone here to help me get my count up.)
hippocampus - May 25, 2011 1:28:44 pm PDT #4425 of 6690
not your mom's socks.
Wait. Why do you need to "take the disability stuff out"? That smells Rotten and stupid, especially if you wrote it to be from a particular perspective. I call bias shenanigans.
erikaj - May 25, 2011 1:39:47 pm PDT #4426 of 6690
Always Anti-fascist!
Um, maybe in this case, it's more like a self-loathing thing(although he's blind, so it's not quite the same thing) and a certain feeling about what markets will take. And I have noticed that recently, my most successful submission was about an able-bodied person. But the other attempts at the same magazine were two and three years ago, and were pieces of a longer work. Maybe that was obvious, and maybe I've improved technically or something.
Barb - May 25, 2011 5:40:32 pm PDT #4427 of 6690
“Not dead yet!”
Yay, Sox on the sale!
And yay, Amy on the signing! (And totally sorry I missed you today!)
As for me...
Tonight, STARS won 1st place in YA Fiction- English language at the International Latino Book Awards!
amych - May 25, 2011 5:47:39 pm PDT #4428 of 6690
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
SO MUCH YAY in this thread!
Polter-Cow - May 25, 2011 7:07:17 pm PDT #4429 of 6690
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Tonight, STARS won 1st place in YA Fiction- English language at the International Latino Book Awards!
Wow, congrats!!
Laga - May 25, 2011 7:08:28 pm PDT #4430 of 6690
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Go Barb!
Strix - May 25, 2011 7:37:29 pm PDT #4431 of 6690
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I am utterly thrilled for you!
MWAH!