THE DAY
Spent the entire day brainstorming this short story proposal. A road I thought the story should take never materialized, and so I went with it, decided to let the story just go where it wanted. Believe me, it’s tough to make something sound interesting when you’re not supplying dialogue, description, stuff like that, and it’s even harder when you are only proposing the idea. You build up the premise; you have to front-load the material; but the middle part, where things get murky, you just have to muddle through, gloss over, and then decide: most publishers want to know how a novel ends if you’re submitting only a synopsis and sample. But do you supply an answer/ending to a story you haven’t written yet (or a novel, for that matter)?
To me, the answer is . . . probably not because things can change so radically in the writing. OTOH, editors know to expect that.
In this case, I didn’t supply an end, although I know what the end is (at least, right now). My idea was that this is just to give an idea of what I’d like to do. If the editor wants more . . .okay, I’ll tell him, provided he understands that the end might change.
The important thing is that I got it done and I got it done the day I said I would. I even got my 90 minutes of aerobics in and strength training. Punted dinner, though; the husband was understanding. Unfortunately, the place we ate was only . . . meh. We won’t go back.
Tomorrow…back to the book.
WRITING OUT LOUD
Story Proposal (Working Title: “Bounty”)
Day 1: 700
Day 2: 1700 (and sent)
GHOST IN THE MACHINE
Day 1: 4326 Day 11: 2500 Day 21: 1800
Day 2: 2085 Day 12: 500 Day 22: 0
Day 3: 3011 Day 13: 1000 Day 23: 2700
Day 4: 2652. Day 14: 3700 Day 24: 3500
Day 5: 3210 Day 15: 5630 Day 25: 1500
Day 6: 3450 Day 16: 1060 Day 26: 0
Day 7: 0 Day 17: 130 Day 27: 0
Day 8: 2756 Day 18: 0
Day 9: 4580 Day 19: 3000
Day 10: 2670 Day 20: 2600
Blog Post: 440
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What I’m Watching:
Slim pickings today. Let me think . . . oh, right, I sped through all of Unforgiven because it disappears from Amazon Prime in, like, two days. I saw that movie when it first came out, except the power in the theater died about thirty minutes from the end! So I never saw what actually happened. So I started at the beginning. Turns out that I remembered a whole bunch of this flick and so fast-forwarded it to where I recall the power cutting out and watched through to the end.
Here’s what I can say: the film hasn’t aged well.
OTOH, the same could be same of me.
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What I’m Reading (and Listening to):
Finishing up Let Me In. Got maybe four chapters left or about an hour’s worth of listening to do.
