At 11:25 a.m. Eastern Standard Time, the short story left the nest.<\/p>\n
It had grown this morning to 2,296 words.<\/p>\n
Okay, okay, enough of this faux-baby announcement stuff.<\/p>\n
I rewrote some of the story on the train this morning.<\/p>\n
Several new paragraphs were added in the middle. A one-sentence paragraph was expanded into something more substantial.<\/p>\n
The ending was significantly reworked. I wasn’t unhappy with the final sentence, but it was limp. I tried to build something better leading to that sentence, and found that what I put before it worked better as the story’s final thought than the final sentence did. So that sentence is gone.<\/p>\n
The story was written approximately 60% longhand. To make sure the rest of the story had the same deliberate feel I get from longhand writing, I read it aloud as I typed, to slow down the words and to match the cadences.<\/p>\n
The final step was to settle on a title.<\/p>\n
The contest<\/a> had a hard limit of 2,500 words. I cut it closer than I wanted to, and I also cut the deadline closer than I wanted.<\/p>\n I feel good about this story. It’s not perfect — what is? — but it feels substantial.<\/p>\n It’s done and it’s gone and I feel good.<\/p>\n Now, onto NaNo. I’ve got lost ground from this story to make up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" At 11:25 a.m. Eastern Standard Time, the short story left the nest. It had grown this morning to 2,296 words. Okay, okay, enough of this faux-baby announcement stuff. I rewrote some of the story on the train this morning. Several new paragraphs were added in the middle. A one-sentence paragraph was expanded into something moreContinue reading “On Story Submission”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[4102],"class_list":["post-2433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","tag-writing","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}