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On the way into work this morning I was thinking about writing (of course) and I was thinking first of all about the flesh-eating bacteria story, which isn't stalled so much as hit one of those "stop and think about it some more" stretches, which led me to think about some other stories I'd started but stalled on and which now might be a good chance to revisit while the flesh-eating bacteria story rests up in the backbrain.
Anyhow, there were two stories in particular that came to mind. Both had decent concepts behind them that I'm unwilling to abandon as unworkable, but both had some nebulous "missing thing" that just hadn't clicked into focus yet enough to take them anywhere. And as I was driving along up and down hills and through corn fields and past cows (which tends to place one in an introspective, content, zen frame of mind) it suddenly struck me that if I removed two minor characters from Story A and replaced them with the main character from Story B, all of a sudden both stories work, and not just as a pair of connected tales but as fully independent stories as well.
w00t, said I!
Then: damnit, now I have to go to work for nine hours first. But hey, at least I get to play with arrays today. And it's Friday, so in addition to some house-cleaning, maybe some good solid writing will get done too.
Given that the f-e-b story does seem determined to be a novel, it'd be nice to get another short or two knocked out so I can have some fresh stuff on submission in the meantime.
Anyhow, there were two stories in particular that came to mind. Both had decent concepts behind them that I'm unwilling to abandon as unworkable, but both had some nebulous "missing thing" that just hadn't clicked into focus yet enough to take them anywhere. And as I was driving along up and down hills and through corn fields and past cows (which tends to place one in an introspective, content, zen frame of mind) it suddenly struck me that if I removed two minor characters from Story A and replaced them with the main character from Story B, all of a sudden both stories work, and not just as a pair of connected tales but as fully independent stories as well.
w00t, said I!
Then: damnit, now I have to go to work for nine hours first. But hey, at least I get to play with arrays today. And it's Friday, so in addition to some house-cleaning, maybe some good solid writing will get done too.
Given that the f-e-b story does seem determined to be a novel, it'd be nice to get another short or two knocked out so I can have some fresh stuff on submission in the meantime.
