by Katherine Villyard | Nov 24, 2005 | short fiction
My “just not right” story is up at Critters and has already received three critiques. Unsurprisingly, the critiques suggest that I’ve again fallen prey to my most common uncritiqued story problem. I try not to spoon feed readers and let them figure...
by Katherine Villyard | Nov 16, 2005 | short fiction
I just realized this morning why the (former) cliché (challenge) story is moving so slowly: that universe is underdeveloped. The SO mentioned Eric Flint and his 1632 anthologies, and somehow that made me realize that no one could write a story in the (former)...
by Katherine Villyard | Nov 8, 2005 | writing stats
Sigh. I’ve backslid. Yes, I’m back to my old evil ways of several stories started at once. Oh, well. At least I’m actually writing on them. The former cliché story proceeds slowly, but it’s chugging along. I’m putting in more...
by Katherine Villyard | Nov 2, 2005 | life, the universe, and everything, novels, short fiction
I was talking to the SO in the car this morning on the way to work about our respective writing projects. He thinks that the problem I’m having with the story formerly for the cliché challenge is that it’s not a short story, it’s a novel....