Oh, no! Started Something Else!
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queenoftheskiesLike I really need a new project, right? Sheesh!
But, I needed a short story for a Halloween contest in an online writing group I belong to, and it suddenly hit me that I could use the idea I had for a screenplay I started and then never had time to finish. So, I thought, yeah, that would work.
Then, I thought, hmm, this could do double service. The short story contest has a 10,000 word limit. So, I write a 10,000 word short story for this idea, and then, I expand it into a novel and submit it to an online e-book publisher I've been considering. Or, who knows? Maybe I'll just submit it to a regular publisher, assuming I finish, with everything else I've got going on.
I have to have the short story finished by midnight Sunday night. Can I do that? Well, I'm anxiously waiting to find out. Going to give it a try.
At any rate, it's called Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory and it's a horror story set during the Civil War time period, which I've always been fond of, since I grew up in Nashville, but I've never really written much in.
Fingers crossed that I'll finish in time. :)
Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory 1,234 words for the day
1,234 total words to date.
But, I needed a short story for a Halloween contest in an online writing group I belong to, and it suddenly hit me that I could use the idea I had for a screenplay I started and then never had time to finish. So, I thought, yeah, that would work.
Then, I thought, hmm, this could do double service. The short story contest has a 10,000 word limit. So, I write a 10,000 word short story for this idea, and then, I expand it into a novel and submit it to an online e-book publisher I've been considering. Or, who knows? Maybe I'll just submit it to a regular publisher, assuming I finish, with everything else I've got going on.
I have to have the short story finished by midnight Sunday night. Can I do that? Well, I'm anxiously waiting to find out. Going to give it a try.
At any rate, it's called Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory and it's a horror story set during the Civil War time period, which I've always been fond of, since I grew up in Nashville, but I've never really written much in.
Fingers crossed that I'll finish in time. :)
Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory 1,234 words for the day
1,234 total words to date.
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Date: 2004-10-26 02:27 pm (UTC)No, I'm not writing it as one huge piece. I'm writing it as individual books but there's an overriding story arc. Basically, each book has three story elements: 1) the macro story of the Colony's political issues, 2) the medium story of a particular crime case that the characters are working on, and 3) the personal stories of the characters themselves. I tell 1 and 2 through 3. I don't sit around textbook-izing about the political issues...I let the characters bitch about them. :) That kind of thing.
So the story breaks are around the main medium story in each instance (I say main because crime being what it is, sometimes there are multiple medium stories all rolled up together, ie they solve one case just to find that they've discovered some deeper and more horrible set of criminals behind it).