Aug. 29th, 2011
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Aug. 29th, 2011 03:49 pmSent in two drafts of The Shepherd's Rule to ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
hradzka at 3:48 PM Central Time. One is 6,995 words long, but sounds a little too terse for my taste -- much as I like The Old Man and the Sea, my intent was not to produce a Hemingway pastiche. The other version, which I called the "Director's Cut," is 9,208 words long; and I feel it's stronger... but somewhere in between would be better.
And of course, being my long-winded self, what I'd really like to do is trim down the Director's Cut a little, then add three scenes that are in the outline, but never got written. I think they'd add a lot of nuance, but since I was already running far too long, and they were not necessary, I let them drop. The economy of short fiction has always been tough on me.
Either way, I think it's a story that can stand on its own merits. As I look for another market to sell to, I will continue to tweak it until I get it right.
Special thanks go out to my heroic betas: Megan, Teresa, Thomas, and Vynessia. Without them this would not have been possible.
I now return you to your regularly scheduled blogging.
hradzka at 3:48 PM Central Time. One is 6,995 words long, but sounds a little too terse for my taste -- much as I like The Old Man and the Sea, my intent was not to produce a Hemingway pastiche. The other version, which I called the "Director's Cut," is 9,208 words long; and I feel it's stronger... but somewhere in between would be better. And of course, being my long-winded self, what I'd really like to do is trim down the Director's Cut a little, then add three scenes that are in the outline, but never got written. I think they'd add a lot of nuance, but since I was already running far too long, and they were not necessary, I let them drop. The economy of short fiction has always been tough on me.
Either way, I think it's a story that can stand on its own merits. As I look for another market to sell to, I will continue to tweak it until I get it right.
Special thanks go out to my heroic betas: Megan, Teresa, Thomas, and Vynessia. Without them this would not have been possible.
I now return you to your regularly scheduled blogging.