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[framlingem]

I got my rough draft for the Marvel Big Bang in on time! Very pleased. I think the final product may even be over ten thousand words. That'd be a first for me. (Okay, sunhawk16, stop laughing, not all of us set out to write short short stories and wind up writing an epic series of novels by accident, that is NOT A THING THAT HAPPENS TO MOST PEOPLE. Really.)

I'm absurdly proud of myself. The issue with me and long fiction is that my primary skill when writing, I think, is concision; I sketch rather than paint. I like to pick out one single detail, one line of dialogue, and let that convey the whole of what I'm trying to say, and fleshing things out to the extent that a scene will take more than 500 words or so is hard for me.

So every time I write something long (and yes, ten thousand words is LONG!), I'm very pleased about it, because I'd really like to write an honest-to-goodness book someday, and building up to it like this makes me think that there might be a book in me for real, along with all the poems and short stories.

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[sunhawk16.livejournal.com]

I would not laugh! In fact... there are days I would sell body parts for some of that concision... all I really do is just ramble. :D