Writing Update: 21 September 2006

700+ words on "All the Leaves Your Bed."

The section I finished this afternoon will need to be rewritten. In fact I might well be able to make it part of the section before. I also worry that it might be a little heavy-handed, but again, that's what the rewrite is for. The section I'm working on right now will probably be the hardest to write in this story. The tone in this section has to be just so, balanced between the heaviness of what is going to happen and the brighter promise that I hope the story expresses. While writing emotions is one of the few things I consider myself reasonably good at as a writer, this section might need a finer tool than I'm use to wielding and a defter hand than I have developed.

This just means I'll need to learn how to do that sort of fine work.

This story is giving me that same sick to the stomach, emotionally drained feeling that "Fetch" left me with.

I also came up with some ideas for how "Ectobytes" should play out. That makes me happy.

160+ days "This story is not for us. However, we like your writing style and would love to see more of your work in the future" from Nanobison.

Writing Update: 21 September 2006

700+ words on "All the Leaves Your Bed."

The section I finished this afternoon will need to be rewritten. In fact I might well be able to make it part of the section before. I also worry that it might be a little heavy-handed, but again, that's what the rewrite is for. The section I'm working on right now will probably be the hardest to write in this story. The tone in this section has to be just so, balanced between the heaviness of what is going to happen and the brighter promise that I hope the story expresses. While writing emotions is one of the few things I consider myself reasonably good at as a writer, this section might need a finer tool than I'm use to wielding and a defter hand than I have developed.

This just means I'll need to learn how to do that sort of fine work.

This story is giving me that same sick to the stomach, emotionally drained feeling that "Fetch" left me with.

I also came up with some ideas for how "Ectobytes" should play out. That makes me happy.

160+ days "This story is not for us. However, we like your writing style and would love to see more of your work in the future" from Nanobison.