Yay! My blog post, The Pleasures of Anthology Editing, is out on the SFWA site!
Nonfiction sale
Yay! My blog post on editing an invitation-only Anthology sold to the SFWA site–should be up shortly. Second sale for this year.
Story plotted
A bike ride is an excellent method for getting over plot dysfunctions. The key is: you have to have been working on the issues so they are in your brain before you go on the bike ride. Then, the lowered stress and increased oxygen do their thing, and the solution pops into your brain. A solo walk can do the same thing. So, now the last plot holes are filled, and I’ve used Daniel Abraham’s method to plot out the entire story, ready for writing.
Second short story
Of my two short story ideas, the second one is almost fully worked out, though there are rough bits. The next thing I plan to do is plot it with Daniel Abraham’s plotting process (which worked well for the last story), and I hope to write on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday this week. Let’s see how far I get in three days.
Thinking is the most important part
Yep. Just goes to show, thinking is the most important part of writing a story. I put together the ideas for my Mercury story in two sessions on the back of the motorcycle, then used Daniel Abraham’s model for plotting out the narrative/information/function of the scenes, and then I wrote and revised the story in 2 days. Not even very long days. Now it is sitting in a drawer so I can revise it from a fresh viewpoint, though I’m pretty sure scene 1 needs to be cut. Typical. But after all that thinking, the story just wrote itself. Nice.