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10 May 2009 09:24 pmI wrote out (by hand!) a rough draft/detailed outline of the first section of the alternate history short I'm submitting in June. It's about 2 pages handwritten. Then I typed it up into a semi-revised, more showing/less telling 1.5th draft. It stands at 769 words.
The guidelines say 1000-8000 words. I'm targeting 1500-2000, though at this rate it may get closer to 2500. (It's going to have three sections.)
I have a rough plot outline for the three sections. Next, I need to write up the middle section.
Once I write the whole thing, which I'd like to have done by Animazement (5/22) at the absolute latest, I'll need some betas. (I wish my writing group hadn't died out.) I need critique from two angles: 1) is it alternate history enough? and 2) the normal editing stuff: style, flow, continuity, characters, word choice, etc.
I want to get it in by the middle of June; we're going on an anniversary trip the 26th-29th or something like that (Thurs-Sun).
Still waiting for word back on the flash piece I submitted at the end of March. I noticed that the magazine just closed to submissions, so I'm thinking they've got a lot of backlog. It'll probably be another 2-3 weeks at least (Duotrope lists the most recent responses received were to stories submitted 3/11 or so. I got mine in the 23rd.) I hope they take it; that would be awesome.
The guidelines say 1000-8000 words. I'm targeting 1500-2000, though at this rate it may get closer to 2500. (It's going to have three sections.)
I have a rough plot outline for the three sections. Next, I need to write up the middle section.
Once I write the whole thing, which I'd like to have done by Animazement (5/22) at the absolute latest, I'll need some betas. (I wish my writing group hadn't died out.) I need critique from two angles: 1) is it alternate history enough? and 2) the normal editing stuff: style, flow, continuity, characters, word choice, etc.
I want to get it in by the middle of June; we're going on an anniversary trip the 26th-29th or something like that (Thurs-Sun).
Still waiting for word back on the flash piece I submitted at the end of March. I noticed that the magazine just closed to submissions, so I'm thinking they've got a lot of backlog. It'll probably be another 2-3 weeks at least (Duotrope lists the most recent responses received were to stories submitted 3/11 or so. I got mine in the 23rd.) I hope they take it; that would be awesome.
