tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19111384.post7377921257502082201..comments2024-03-24T17:06:47.135-04:00Comments on Story Bones: Sunday Night, at Home With My Rejections and WIPsSteve Buchheithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12999709767641212586noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19111384.post-7224471878029622362009-11-30T11:05:59.023-05:002009-11-30T11:05:59.023-05:00Rick, yep it's part of the game. PodCastle wa...Rick, yep it's part of the game. PodCastle was sort of a long shot, but that voice in the back of my head said, "Go for it."<br /><br />For the WIP novel, I'm trying to keep all the chapters below 2000 (to make for a fast read), which means for a first draft they should be around 15-1700, which is where we're ending up. <br /><br />For the short fiction, I have come to like some of the stories I've ground out, and would like to get to some of the ideas I have stubs for, but I think I am a novelist at heart. And writing shorts has given me the experience I looked for when I started them. <br /><br />That doesn't mean I won't continue to drop them out from time to time. There's a couple good ones (as I've said) I have partials for, and one in particular I want to finish for a certain editor's open call, if for no other reason than when I think/imagine the scenes they make me all giggly inside (in the "Asylum Giggling" fashion). Lots of sickly green light on squamous shambling things mixed with deep water blue with darker overtones, men with guns fighting things that can't be killed easily with guns, great place names (that are real places), and, of course, the gibbering madness that lay just on the other side of this facade we call reality.Steve Buchheithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12999709767641212586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19111384.post-18827482994552008232009-11-29T22:47:17.841-05:002009-11-29T22:47:17.841-05:00Sorry about the rejection, Steve. Part of the gam...Sorry about the rejection, Steve. Part of the game, you know, but still painful.<br /><br />I've been running 2500 words per chapter on my werewolf novel, and I have to tell you I might try to knock them down to size a bit. They feel a bit too long.<br /><br />And that sucks about the dwindling market for short fiction.Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14546882686381428986noreply@blogger.com