Resuming Fiction!
It’s been a while since I posted my last short story, or even a proposal for one. I’ve been busy, stressed, ill, dealing with issues and many more excuses you […]
Think Better, Think Bigger!
It’s been a while since I posted my last short story, or even a proposal for one. I’ve been busy, stressed, ill, dealing with issues and many more excuses you […]
It’s been a while since I posted my last short story, or even a proposal for one. I’ve been busy, stressed, ill, dealing with issues and many more excuses you really don’t want to know about.
In the past couple of weeks though, as things have cleared up, I’ve managed to finish up a first version of one of the stories I proposed oh so many moons ago: The Song, a Sci-Fi Noir story. The bad news is that I’ve decided to do something else with that particular story as soon as I’ve put it through a few revisions and test reads. I’ve never submitted a short story for publication in a magazine, and it’s something I’ve wanted to do but I’ll admit that it terrifies me. I don’t know if I’m even half the writer needed to pull that one off. But you know, fear is the mind killer after all, so I won’t let that stop me.
But there are a good amount of stories I proposed and never wrote, and others I worked on but never finished. The Lion’s Claw and Fringes being the prime candidates. Those have been ready for ages but since my proofreader never got back to me, they’ve kinda stayed in limbo.
But I can’t wait anymore, at least not for eternity so I’m looking for a new set of readers, and will send them the stories as I finish them, so they can at least review the overall tales and tell me their failings, so I can improve upon them on the second, third and nth drafts. I’m also commissioning some custom art to go with the stories, to bring some of the key scenes to life. This might delay the stories a bit, but I’m confident it’ll be worth it.
So, with The Lion’s Claw and Fringes coming soon, what’s next? Which one am I picking to write first? Well, I’ve decided on this order for writing them, completely ignoring the poll I’d setup for them, by the way. When I first put the polls together I felt the same about all stories, but since then I’ve had time to think and imagine the worlds they take place in and there are some I’m most excited about.
You can find the full synopses for the stories in the one-shot page, but here’s the list of the stories I’ll work on and publish:
There are more stories in the one-shot page but honestly at this time they don’t excite me as much as these I have listed.
I can’t promise an ETA for them, though as soon as possible is about it.
As I write them, I’m bound to have more ideas so I’ll probably come back to propose a few new stories.