accomplished"Pebbles from the River Lethe" is finished and has been submitted to its target market! (Witch me luck, eh?) I'm very proud of myself. I think this is the longest piece of fiction that I've taken all the way through the revision process and submitted somewhere. The final word count is 14,944. It has taken most of a month to review.
Special thanks to my partner and first-reader Doug, without whom ... *ahem* ... well, the narrator wasn't quite right in the head, so you can just imagine what the rough draft looked like. If the end result makes sense, it's on account of Doug. Thanks also to my audience, because sometimes it helps to have a cheering section when staring at a 60-page manuscript full of revision marks.
This, then, is the tale of Flare, a veteran of the WAR. It's thanks to people like him that the Consociation eventually becomes a nice place to live. This story captures part of the background for that, which isn't so nice. It's about the enduring foolishness and perseverence of mankind, the aftermath of war, the thrill of exploration, and the determination of personal growth.
May 27 2008, 02:41:05 UTC 13 years ago
Yay!
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May 27 2008, 03:09:20 UTC 13 years ago
May 27 2008, 12:26:19 UTC 13 years ago
May 27 2008, 13:57:47 UTC 13 years ago
Aw, Shucks!
May 27 2008, 15:39:25 UTC 13 years ago
Doug is already asking me what the next fiction project will be. *wheef* I haven't even looked at my pending-revision stack yet.
May 27 2008, 23:15:35 UTC 13 years ago
15k though? Where are you submitting that?