Dustin Adams wrote:pdblake wrote:Submitted yesterday.
Sweet!
Two months early. Nice.
I'm stuck "working" from home. Leaves a lot of gardening and writing time.
Dustin Adams wrote:pdblake wrote:Submitted yesterday.
Sweet!
Two months early. Nice.
Reuben wrote:I can't get past my third scene. I've written it five times now, each time anew, but it's never memorable or original enough for me. It just ends up as cliche dialog to me that works to move on with the story. Oh well.
Reuben wrote:I'm doing it for mine, partially. I've heard that "Dave prefers linear storytelling, but he's open to new ideas."
Among the volumes I've read during is tenure, V33 has two nonlinear stories, V35 definitely has at least one. I can't remember others, although I know that Kary English's finalist (hhttps://grantvillegazette.com/article/publish-587 ) is nonlinear--the whole thing is told as a flashback.
TimE wrote:Plenty of humour in mine, so i know i've no chance. But I'm enjoying writing it.
Dustin Adams wrote:
I once saw a SF crit where Dave mentioned wanting more belly laughs. With humor it's go big or go home. Little chuckles are OK in an otherwise serious story, but if you go humor, go all out.
RSchibler wrote:Always, if you’d like my feedback. As of right now my queue is empty.
C.A. Tedeschi wrote:I've finally finished it. I just need to get some eyes on it. I put a request for a crit exchange in the forum, nothing yet. I don't really want to submit it without a few read throughs of the finished work. I've learned, Feedback is invaluable....
CCrawford wrote:I'm in for Q1! I feel weird having submitted so early, but I completely rewrote the thing (again) and now I was at the point where I was just moving commas around and changing my wording and then changing it back again, so that's usually my sign that the story is about to riot or self-combust if I do any more editing on it. Lol.
Dustin Adams wrote:TimE wrote:Plenty of humour in mine, so i know i've no chance. But I'm enjoying writing it.
Humor is super tough. Especially in short stories. But it can be done! V.31 had two humorous tales.
What is humor most times but defying expectation? By the time we set it up to defy it, we've got too many words.
Thor 3 wouldn't have been as funny without Thor 1 and 2. Now he's all about the humor being the easiest to defy our expectations.
Fantasy? How about a sensitive dwarf? Nope. ABD.
Look at The God Whisperer:
When Jack got home from work on Thursday, he found a pyramid made of bird skulls in his flowerbed. Zu'ar--ancient god of death, strive, and war--must have gotten out of the yard again.
I once saw a SF crit where Dave mentioned wanting more belly laughs. With humor it's go big or go home. Little chuckles are OK in an otherwise serious story, but if you go humor, go all out.![]()
And of course if you're enjoying writing it, then all the better!
babooher wrote:LouisD, do you need someone to look over a story? I can if you do.
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