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Aug. 31st, 2014 01:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tuuliaThree short stories in a week. Now I'm exhausted. This is why none of my NaNoWriMo novels were any good. If I want it to be good, it's a lot of hard work to get it on paper.
It also seems that as long as it's horror or erotica, the chances are high that there's a home for it somewhere. The story I was writing for Circlet's Coffee: Hot collection turned out to be about mothers and daughters and the sex was not the point, so I edited it out and sent the story to a horror publisher. Now to wait six months for a rejection, after which I can edit again and resubmit elsewhere...
I wish I felt more moved to write erotica, but it's rather boring unless there's plenty of space to establish characters, too, which you don't get in a short story. There's also the expectation to make the sex good, when bad sex is at least as interesting to write about.
I have one more story stashed, which I've already sent around before, which I hope I'll be able to submit it to Crossed Genres in a couple of months when their betrayal theme comes up. In the immortal words of Commander Taggart: Never give up, never surrender.
It also seems that as long as it's horror or erotica, the chances are high that there's a home for it somewhere. The story I was writing for Circlet's Coffee: Hot collection turned out to be about mothers and daughters and the sex was not the point, so I edited it out and sent the story to a horror publisher. Now to wait six months for a rejection, after which I can edit again and resubmit elsewhere...
I wish I felt more moved to write erotica, but it's rather boring unless there's plenty of space to establish characters, too, which you don't get in a short story. There's also the expectation to make the sex good, when bad sex is at least as interesting to write about.
I have one more story stashed, which I've already sent around before, which I hope I'll be able to submit it to Crossed Genres in a couple of months when their betrayal theme comes up. In the immortal words of Commander Taggart: Never give up, never surrender.
