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I finally finished the zombie story yesterday.

As I've mentioned earlier, between the politics and the word count, it's probably one of the most unpublishable things I've written, but it gave me tremednous joy to knock off. It's also probably a good sign for Clarion, since I knocked the whole story out in eight days, finishing exactly a week after I started. Apart from a couple of flash-fiction pieces that got written over the course of a single day each, this is the shortest writing time for any short story I've ever written. I tend to average about a month from start to finish (since I started writing again last May, I've finished 13 short stories, including the two flash pieces), with The Star Inside the Swastika as the previous record-holder since it only took two weeks. Anyway, since I'll have to do the story-a-week rate at Clarion--"literary boot camp," as they say, although taken literally that's a pretty funny image--it's probably good to know that it's at least possible for me.

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As one of the first fifty people to blog for it, I will indeed be getting my free advance copy of the July F&SF, which is good, since lately I usually look at it at the bookstore, maybe read the reviews, think about shelling out the $5 and then decide not to. I subscribed to it for years in the late 90s, but at some point I stopped renewing my subscription (probably when I moved to Pittsburgh), and for the last several years I've been too far out of the habit of reading it to be inclined to shell out the $5 when I do see it at bookstores. Still, whenever I do, I always find something worth reading, whether it be Liz Hand's book reviews or some random gem like "Why the Aliens Did What They Did to that Suburb of Madison, Wisconsin" by Tim McDaniel.

(Descriptions don't do it justice, but it's a bite-sized little story that all but had me rolling around on the floor laughing...it didn't, fortunately, since I was reading it at Shuler's and the other customers would have given me funny looks and the staff would have asked me to leave, but it really was pretty funny.)

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Previous Entry :: Next Entry Read/Post Comments (0) Share on Facebook		2006-05-08 9:22 PM Zombies, F&SF I finally finished the zombie story yesterday. As I've mentioned earlier, between the politics and the word count, it's probably one of the most unpublishable things I've written, but it gave me tremednous joy to knock off. It's also probably a good sign for Clarion, since I knocked the whole story out in eight days, finishing exactly a week after I started. Apart from a couple of flash-fiction pieces that got written over the course of a single day each, this is the shortest writing time for any short story I've ever written. I tend to average about a month from start to finish (since I started writing again last May, I've finished 13 short stories, including the two flash pieces), with The Star Inside the Swastika as the previous record-holder since it only took two weeks. Anyway, since I'll have to do the story-a-week rate at Clarion--"literary boot camp," as they say, although taken literally that's a pretty funny image--it's probably good to know that it's at least possible for me. # As one of the first fifty people to blog for it, I will indeed be getting my free advance copy of the July F&SF, which is good, since lately I usually look at it at the bookstore, maybe read the reviews, think about shelling out the $5 and then decide not to. I subscribed to it for years in the late 90s, but at some point I stopped renewing my subscription (probably when I moved to Pittsburgh), and for the last several years I've been too far out of the habit of reading it to be inclined to shell out the $5 when I do see it at bookstores. Still, whenever I do, I always find something worth reading, whether it be Liz Hand's book reviews or some random gem like "Why the Aliens Did What They Did to that Suburb of Madison, Wisconsin" by Tim McDaniel. (Descriptions don't do it justice, but it's a bite-sized little story that all but had me rolling around on the floor laughing...it didn't, fortunately, since I was reading it at Shuler's and the other customers would have given me funny looks and the staff would have asked me to leave, but it really was pretty funny.) Read/Post Comments (0) Previous Entry :: Next Entry Back to Top