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Mar. 20th, 2002 01:10 amOkay. Update to please Mek. Sub dates. Clarion: 2 weeks, basically. Surlalune: 64 days. except of course, that's the official end of the submission period, and not when I sent them in. In reality, I sent them out on the 30th of September. :)
I put up two of my two pagers, and got some really good stuff on goddess almost immediately. Worlds is still up, cause well, I haven't anything I want to write about it yet. But I have thought a lot about Goddess--more on that later. Now up is Welcoming Our Astronauts Home, which is nearly universally hated (hi mek! you're the nearly.) But I still love it. Despite its flaws. Or possibly because of them. Or possibly just to be contrary. But really, I was so pleased with it, other than the obvious too much telling flaw. And shut up! Don't tell me about the rest of the flaws because damnit, I'm not taking out that 'you know the rest of the story" line. At least, not now. Maybe when the story's done. Maybe. But I make no promises.
Okay. safer topic. Goddess. Really, I should have written all this down today when i was bored sick with no mail or work. Anyways. I'm thinking--and still working out the details--of the plotting of the story. I'm having the embodiment of the goddess and the body alternating scenes. I've got the plants, the scar, and the death scenes written out so far. And for the body, I've got a waking up with a hangover scene. So I'm thinking I'll run the body story backwards, and the embodiment story forwards. So, the body will be getting healthier, the goddess stronger, and probably end them both with a transfer of power. I'll make the body in the first scene a little weaker--give her an IV stop or some such. the trick, however, will be in making it apparent that the stories are running in opposite directions. Possibly I can do it by making the bodies getting kissed at the end are totally different--of course, they've got the blue-gold eyes, but if one's a blonde, and the other's a redhead, it should be more obvious? Cause I'm thinking the embodiment looks like the goddess, regardless of what the body looks like. Or, alternately, it doesn't matter what the body looks like, because the goddess is everywoman. :) Okay, enough for tonight. Unless I get up in 15 minutes because I have to write a page and a half. whereupon I'll be rather grumpy.
I put up two of my two pagers, and got some really good stuff on goddess almost immediately. Worlds is still up, cause well, I haven't anything I want to write about it yet. But I have thought a lot about Goddess--more on that later. Now up is Welcoming Our Astronauts Home, which is nearly universally hated (hi mek! you're the nearly.) But I still love it. Despite its flaws. Or possibly because of them. Or possibly just to be contrary. But really, I was so pleased with it, other than the obvious too much telling flaw. And shut up! Don't tell me about the rest of the flaws because damnit, I'm not taking out that 'you know the rest of the story" line. At least, not now. Maybe when the story's done. Maybe. But I make no promises.
Okay. safer topic. Goddess. Really, I should have written all this down today when i was bored sick with no mail or work. Anyways. I'm thinking--and still working out the details--of the plotting of the story. I'm having the embodiment of the goddess and the body alternating scenes. I've got the plants, the scar, and the death scenes written out so far. And for the body, I've got a waking up with a hangover scene. So I'm thinking I'll run the body story backwards, and the embodiment story forwards. So, the body will be getting healthier, the goddess stronger, and probably end them both with a transfer of power. I'll make the body in the first scene a little weaker--give her an IV stop or some such. the trick, however, will be in making it apparent that the stories are running in opposite directions. Possibly I can do it by making the bodies getting kissed at the end are totally different--of course, they've got the blue-gold eyes, but if one's a blonde, and the other's a redhead, it should be more obvious? Cause I'm thinking the embodiment looks like the goddess, regardless of what the body looks like. Or, alternately, it doesn't matter what the body looks like, because the goddess is everywoman. :) Okay, enough for tonight. Unless I get up in 15 minutes because I have to write a page and a half. whereupon I'll be rather grumpy.
