I finished editing "The Girl Who Couldn't Fly" and sent it off for its first submission today. The first rough draft was 4,100 pages, but by the time it was finished it was just over 3,400 words - a good sign, in my opinion. The better edited a story is, the tighter it gets and the more it shrinks. This is counter-intuitive for most people, and also the opposite of journalism where - since you always write tight to begin with - the more you work on a story the longer it gets.
"Girl" seemed to tighten somewhat more than average, but I believe that is because it was dictated using the Dragon software. That seems normal, storytelling is more chatty that writing.
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It's that time of the year again, for the annual eligibility post - a blog or social media post listing of what you published in 2017 th...
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The deadline for The Hugo Awards nominations is March 10. My story, "On a Spiritual Plain", which was published in issue No. 2 of ... -
By LOU ANTONELLI Managing Editor It’s rained almost daily for the past four months. The ground is saturated; walking across grass is lik...
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