I've gotten pretty much to the point where I can't write the ending of Torii without going back and cleaning up all that rumble in the earlier sections.
I'm kind of scared to do it, so I'm not. I'm just fiddling around the edges, waiting for things to settle and thinking about what I'll do next.
I'm not going to try and get Torii published right away. It's not like Ceallach; I can't just throw it out there. It's too ridiculously personal. Besides, some of the concepts in Torii need work. I want to give it time enough for all the ideas in that story to develop. I want it to live up to its potential, if you know what I mean.
I think I'm going to try and submit short stories to magazines so I can get a publishing record. I've found three magazines and I have made a little list with word count requirements.
Then I'm just going to write. I'm going to write whatever the hell I feel like writing, until I stumble across the next good idea and then I'll start shaping it to fit the word count, if I can.
That way, maybe I can develop a little following of people who enjoy my work, in addition to you guys. :)
Actually, the response to my last excerpt was really good. In fact, whenever I post an excerpt, I get a lot more activity, a lot more quickly than usual. It was partly what got me thinking down this line. I must have hooked some of you, is what I realized. You must be interested in the story.
I thought, gosh, if I can do that with very small excerpts, I'll bet I can do that with short stories. I'll bet I can write colorful, original and interesting short stories that are full of drama and human emotion and my usual dialogue.
We'll see.
