I’m about halfway through “War Stories” editing like a maniac. I got started on a new way of editing, for me at least. I’m going from back to front, paragraph by paragraph making each as good and as tight as I can. I’m adding some details, deleting others, cutting redundancies, etc. Was low as 7350 words, now back to around 7410. I want to get this done this week to send out to the Writers of the Future.
Speaking of WotF, just received “The Wild Hunt” back. I’ll update the in-submission list sometime next week, I’ll be sending out a lot this weekend. “The Wild Hunt” is my second story to make the Quarter Finalist list for WotF. Close, but no cigar, yet. I don’t know if “War Stories” will be the one to get me through to a moneyed finish, but I want to get it out.
Back to the grind. I have my writers’ group this Tuesday, and work is still going gangbusters. I could have worked another 12 hours today, but only made it as far as 10.5. Tomorrow could also be a long one if I didn’t have the meeting.
2 comments:
I saw your post on TB's website and thought I'd drop by. I too am a two-time WOTF Quarter-Finalist. I haven't gotten my story for last quarter back yet. Fingers crossed. I have a whopping 200 words down for this quarter's story. Tonight will be a pavement pounder.
Anyway, you've got good company out there. Have a great day!
Hey Scott. Cool. Congrats on being a Quarter-Finalist as well. Also, major congrats on the sale and 2nd place in the Clarke-Bradbury. The more I do conventions, etc. the more I find the truly interesting people working in this field. BTW, I wrote my college senior paper on Clarke and his use of religion for my minor in Creative Writing. I discovered a lot of early Bradbury right after that. Almost retook that independent study to do a paper on Ray.
Unfortunately I'm not going to get "War Stories" out for this quarter, but it'll be early for next qtr. Work was a bear with a 13 hour day today, and I was already running on caffeine fumes. So I think verb tense checking isn’t going to happen, let alone the, “how do I twist this to make it stronger,” edits are out of the question. Messed up by the day-job again. One of these days I gotta get rid of it. :)
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