Sending Out
May. 14th, 2004 10:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pjthompsonSent my short-short style monkey, Band of Angels, out to Strange Horizons this morning. We'll see if Angel has wings, but frankly, I don't think has a chance in Hell, but what the hell? It's good practice in Sending Stuff Out, my mission for this year.
Besides, Angel is one of the few stories I have that's short enough for SH. For some reason, everything I write wants to be a novel, even the short stories. I can never seem to get anything under 7500 words. 9-10k is about standard for my short stories. *sigh* Actually, 12k is about standard for my short stories, but I usually manage to hack them down to about 9-10k. And I've written a couple of short stories that were closer to 30k. Ahem. I managed to whack one of them, Sealed With A Curse, down to about 15k, but the other is currently taking up a lot of space on the OWW. Or rather, it will take up a lot of space once I post all six parts. I see much hack and whacking in that story's future...unless I decide to turn it into a novel or part of a novel. :-)
I guess I'm a blabbermouth. Which should be no surprise to anybody who's read this blog.
Besides, Angel is one of the few stories I have that's short enough for SH. For some reason, everything I write wants to be a novel, even the short stories. I can never seem to get anything under 7500 words. 9-10k is about standard for my short stories. *sigh* Actually, 12k is about standard for my short stories, but I usually manage to hack them down to about 9-10k. And I've written a couple of short stories that were closer to 30k. Ahem. I managed to whack one of them, Sealed With A Curse, down to about 15k, but the other is currently taking up a lot of space on the OWW. Or rather, it will take up a lot of space once I post all six parts. I see much hack and whacking in that story's future...unless I decide to turn it into a novel or part of a novel. :-)
I guess I'm a blabbermouth. Which should be no surprise to anybody who's read this blog.
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Date: 2004-05-14 05:55 pm (UTC)I have to go check out your new pics now...
Quickest way to cut short stories shorter?
Date: 2004-05-14 06:04 pm (UTC)Re: Quickest way to cut short stories shorter?
Date: 2004-05-14 08:42 pm (UTC)LOL. I usually get around to something of that sort, but it takes me awhile to "let go." But hey, I cut a 30k story down to 17.5k before posting it on OWW (Sealed With A Curse), then cut it down to 15k afterwards even though I'd added more scenes that Kelly Link advised me to add in her EC review. I think I did pretty good there. But as I said, it just takes me awhile to let go.
I usually do eventually, though.
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Date: 2004-05-14 08:44 pm (UTC)In my case, rather like that relative who drops in unannounced and refuses to go home. :-)