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Finished draft two of the story I wrote for my challenge. I'm going to try and get up the motivation to work on draft three, which involves much more serious editing. And by get up the motivation, I more mean stop staring at the internet and get writing. I think a scene or two is missing to connect to the end. I am slightly worried that this is a story where "things happen" rather than an actual plot, but I won't be able to tell that until I get some real critique on it.
It is definitely optimistic, linear, and full of healthy relationships, though!
I also need a better title.
I've been working on a shorter story that was originally going to be a flash fiction piece, but I'm not sure it's going to work out as a flash fiction piece. Which is fine. I need more character development to make the plot work, and I simply cannot do that in another 500 words. It'll likely still be a shorter story -- around 2,500 - 3,000 words, I'm pretty sure. I just have to figure out how said character development happens.
But basically, it boils down to the question:
What would you do if someone offered you the chance to give up everything going on it your life so that you can go on a spaceship and sail the stars? You have to go back eventually, but you can take from it what you can. A chance to fully be yourself, not confined by societal rules and what other people expect of you.
No, seriously. What would you do?
It is definitely optimistic, linear, and full of healthy relationships, though!
I've been working on a shorter story that was originally going to be a flash fiction piece, but I'm not sure it's going to work out as a flash fiction piece. Which is fine. I need more character development to make the plot work, and I simply cannot do that in another 500 words. It'll likely still be a shorter story -- around 2,500 - 3,000 words, I'm pretty sure. I just have to figure out how said character development happens.
But basically, it boils down to the question:
What would you do if someone offered you the chance to give up everything going on it your life so that you can go on a spaceship and sail the stars? You have to go back eventually, but you can take from it what you can. A chance to fully be yourself, not confined by societal rules and what other people expect of you.
No, seriously. What would you do?
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And then sometimes I come up with titles which themselves are the seeds of stories!
And then sometimes I sit and stare at a story and it refuses to gain a good title, or even a passable title, no matter what tactics I try. And I end up giving them completely shitty titles like Water Rights. Which is on a story that I worked on for like eight months. It's about the owner of a hydroponics rig in space who ends up having to dismantle her business to provide water to space colonists after some yahoo blows up the space elevator that exports water from Earth. I'm absolutely certain that there had to be at least fifty better titles out there, but I could find none of them. Or like Epic, which was an FFVIII fanfic. Which was, as originally conceived... well, epic.
If the Gay YA refuses to give me a better title than "the Gay YA", I am going to punch it in its snarky little novel face.
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If the Gay YA refuses to give me a better title than "the Gay YA", I am going to punch it in its snarky little novel face.
But it's so meta! XD
At the moment, all I've got is "Byrd and Wolfe" and "Werewolf High" which... yeah. Are definitely not the final titles. *headdesk* (Well, the one that I actually have named is Post Mortem, and I'm pretty sure I'm sticking with that one, but yeah. I also am not sure I could publish that. Although if I could it would be really, really awesome.)
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