"Nobody understands the wreck of the soul the way you do." -The New Pornographers
Rob from Six Sentences has been kind enough to accept another submission from me, and I understand there will be one more coming up in December. WOOT!
I am, as ever, a big fan of the work at Six Sentences. The things I like about it are that there is a healthy mix of professionals and amateurs. Avant garde and pedestrian alike can find something there. I remember my first post which was a little over a year ago at this point. It was about a guy who has a shitty day at work and then finds out that his significant other has left him. It was funny, but rough.
I feel as though my writing ability has changed over the last year; mostly because I am doing more of it. I am taking classes through Writers Digest Online Workshops and it is helping and I am becoming a much more confident writer. I have not trouble starting these days but I am still at a loss for when to transition and how to complete the story that I want to tell. Sometimes I find myself stuck where the character is sitting someplace and I can't get them out of that place. I started a story a year ago about a guy whose father kills himself and the character was taking a cross country train trip. But I couldn't figure out how to get him off of the train in the place he was going, because I couldn't figure out what was going to happen to him once he got there. It was really sort of sad and this poor bastard has been sitting on the train ever since. Now I go back and I read it and I don't like it or anything about it. So I have closed that and might at some point go back to it. We will see.
In the meantime, I chug away here and at my seldom updated--but often thought about--story about Marlowe. Occasionally I submit something to Rob, who posts them up on his fantastic site.
Today I am going to see Beowulf in 3D. Expect a post about it tonight or tomorrow sometime.
I hope everybody has a truly wonderful Holiday Season, which ever holiday it is you practice.
I am, as ever, a big fan of the work at Six Sentences. The things I like about it are that there is a healthy mix of professionals and amateurs. Avant garde and pedestrian alike can find something there. I remember my first post which was a little over a year ago at this point. It was about a guy who has a shitty day at work and then finds out that his significant other has left him. It was funny, but rough.
I feel as though my writing ability has changed over the last year; mostly because I am doing more of it. I am taking classes through Writers Digest Online Workshops and it is helping and I am becoming a much more confident writer. I have not trouble starting these days but I am still at a loss for when to transition and how to complete the story that I want to tell. Sometimes I find myself stuck where the character is sitting someplace and I can't get them out of that place. I started a story a year ago about a guy whose father kills himself and the character was taking a cross country train trip. But I couldn't figure out how to get him off of the train in the place he was going, because I couldn't figure out what was going to happen to him once he got there. It was really sort of sad and this poor bastard has been sitting on the train ever since. Now I go back and I read it and I don't like it or anything about it. So I have closed that and might at some point go back to it. We will see.
In the meantime, I chug away here and at my seldom updated--but often thought about--story about Marlowe. Occasionally I submit something to Rob, who posts them up on his fantastic site.
Today I am going to see Beowulf in 3D. Expect a post about it tonight or tomorrow sometime.
I hope everybody has a truly wonderful Holiday Season, which ever holiday it is you practice.
posted by V. at 8:14 AM
2 Comments:
Maybe the story is about a guy who can't ever get off the train for some reason. And all the different kinds of people he meets in that very transient place.
Maybe you could just have the train crash and have him die saving a burning baby or something. So then he is a hero, and his story is done...and maybe the baby he saved is more interesting anyway?
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