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Math flash and writing thoughts
Jan. 4th, 2020 10:16 pm7734 (1148 words)
Fandom: Original Work
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Additional Tags: Sloth with a side of gluttony, Mathematics
Summary:
In other news, I mentioned I'm trying to be more deliberate about potentially-publishable original fiction. One component of that is looking to see if there are certain outlets/anthologies that might be good fits for me and writing something to those "targets." I've been aiming high in the past with SFWA qualifying outlets, but at the moment I'm trying to keep my options open if something less lucrative might be a better "fit."
Sometimes the advice "write what you know" is kind of useless, sometimes it's meaningful. I feel like the characters in the stories I'm working on now are more "me" than others have been, but in order to get the confidence I can do these stories well and not fall into self-absorption, I needed to practice writing far-flung characters/settings first, in order to approach these with enough wryness/distance that they can be realistically flawed, but also are authentic enough to be interesting. (That's the hope, anyway.)
Fandom: Original Work
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Additional Tags: Sloth with a side of gluttony, Mathematics
Summary:
The prompt was for an evil calculator whose "SIN" button really causes wrongdoing, that's it that's the story.
--In other news, I mentioned I'm trying to be more deliberate about potentially-publishable original fiction. One component of that is looking to see if there are certain outlets/anthologies that might be good fits for me and writing something to those "targets." I've been aiming high in the past with SFWA qualifying outlets, but at the moment I'm trying to keep my options open if something less lucrative might be a better "fit."
Sometimes the advice "write what you know" is kind of useless, sometimes it's meaningful. I feel like the characters in the stories I'm working on now are more "me" than others have been, but in order to get the confidence I can do these stories well and not fall into self-absorption, I needed to practice writing far-flung characters/settings first, in order to approach these with enough wryness/distance that they can be realistically flawed, but also are authentic enough to be interesting. (That's the hope, anyway.)
