Once More Marches Forth My Army Of Words
Fri 2006-02-17 11:00:00 (in context)
- 2,764 words (if poetry, lines) long
- 51,685 words (if poetry, lines) long
- 16.75 hrs. revised
At upper left (upper left in the current style sheet, anyway; I reserve the right to change it at any time, so there) you will find two manuscripts. One is a novel. One is a short story. You will probably not need to be told which is which, even if you haven't been reading along all this time. The word counts will be dead giveaways.
About the novel: There are things which Diane probably shouldn't know as early as Chapter Two. Today's session was mostly spent figuring out which things those were, and what other things to replace them with. Some of said figuring out took place over a plate of bacon and eggs, because I felt like it.
("Save all manner of bacon grease. You will be instructed as to its use later.")
About the short story: I and a veritable bouquet of postage stamps in various denominations have sent it out into the word again. My next assignment, in case the story should come back unbought, is to make up a list of four other editorial desks/slush piles it should visit, and be prepared to ship it off to the next one right away. And, should this exercise result in nothing more victorious than five rejection letters from five professional markets, I need to decide on a second tier list, because that's how this game is played.
("Send it out 'til hell won't have it.")
May every week end as productively as this one.