Hatrack River Writers Workshop: I did it!

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Posted by Lyrajean (Member # 7664) on :

I took a break from the novel WIP i've been working on and managed to finish a novella that I started several years ago. It needs a fine tooth comb over it before I'm ready to look for outside readers.

With the on going novel project still coninuing but on the downward end of things (hopefully I'll be able to post about that one soon!) it's nice to have a sense of accomplishment for once rahter than stare at the bits of unfinished writing business that inhabit the 'my docs' folder on my PC.

On the sucky side: 1. its a novella, and 2. a sequel to an as of yet unfinished work which will probably be a novel and 3. as such it is unlikely publishable through most traditional venues.

There is a finished short story that will fit into the novel that covers much of the background for this one, but it's basically soft-porn, or so my mother tells me... -sigh-

Posted by axeminister (Member # 8991) on :

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On the sucky side:

In the context of your post, this does not compute.

I say grats to you!

Axe

Posted by Foste (Member # 8892) on :

Omedetou!

Must feel great.

Posted by LDWriter2 (Member # 9148) on :

Good work and Niiice.

There have been soft core SF stories. I forget the writer but one famous one said in an introduction to a story that quite a while back writers were told to write sex into their stories so they would sell, so he wrote some that way, including the one I read.

But I think your term does compute but I'm afraid it could compute not in the usual way.

But eventually some of us may see if your mother is right.

Posted by gyanavani (Member # 9414) on :

You know I actually envy you. I am stuck with the novel that I am writing which by the way began five years back as a short story only too many characters intruded and in the end I caved in and said okay lets make it a novel. So three chapters go firing forward and am ecstatic with my decision. But three months later I am still working on the beginning of my fourth chapter which I have a good sense of how it should read but am unable to achieve it when I sit down to it.

Then I decided that maybe it would make better sense if I wrote a short story on the new character that I will introduce in this chapter. But the fast zippy action paced story has not yet worked out. So I worked on another scene with some success even thought it too will not appear in the novel except for a piece of advice that will keep haunting this character.

To recap" my novel's not going anywhere; the fun story that I had visualised is only a para long; and I have a long scene that I don't see myself using in the novel.

Sigh, sigh, sigh...

Posted by Natej11 (Member # 8547) on :

Grats!

Finishing novels is always a wonderful feeling, although it's often bittersweet because you know that now it's time to edit...bletch.

Posted by Wordcaster (Member # 9183) on :

Am I deranged because I prefer editing more than the first run-through of a story?

It's much easier and it's putting pieces of garbled mess in a nice, tight package.

Posted by EVOC (Member # 9381) on :

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Am I deranged because I prefer editing more than the first run-through of a story?

Yes you are