WWIR: April 27 through May 3, 2008
NB: Thursday, I think, got a wild notion to write something short (me, Ms. But-It’s-Only-40,000-Words-Over-Maximum-Length) for a specific market. It’s falling together pretty nicely. Don’t exactly have the ending. Didn’t have character names until I hit the wall with the ending and went back to fill in all those blanks. Finally came up with appropriate benign-sounding acronym for the evil group, prior to which it was my standard TAO (The Acronym Organization). None of which sounds like “falling together pretty nicely,” but trust me, it’s much smoother than most of my starts.
Stands at 7300 words (in 3 days—whee!) with my lack of ending and first-draft placeholders (such as “insert face sucking here”—seriously, this is my process), so hitting minimum length won’t be a problem, and I’ll have plenty of room to flesh it out before I hit maximum.
No suitable title yet. About 50 campy titles, at which I seem to excel. Unfortunately, not real fitting for my torture stories.
Don’t know how well suited it is for said market (primarily, don’t think my hero is enough of an asshole), but I suppose they’ll let me know. If they let me NO, I reckon we found our serial, since I’m of a mind the yield on a story this size is too low to expend a huge amount of effort finding it a home.
(Completely-unrelated-to-anything vampire story, by the way. Practicing stepping outside the universe upon which Kerry’s Fantasy Career was based.)
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…don’t think my hero is enough of an asshole…
*snerk* Between that and the vampire reference, I bet I know this market. In fact, there’s a chance I’m writing for it, too. And having some of the same “but is the hero enough of an asshole…cough…Alpha?” issues.
Hmm, indeed it does sound as if we are IN COMPETITION! To arms, wench!
Yeah, the definition one of the editors gave of “alpha” was more in line with my definition of “unevolved ape,” and I assume my poor, wounded fangboy isn’t going to live… down to that expectation.
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I can appreciate an unevolved ape every once in a while (provided the Darwinism kicks in at some point in the story), but does anybody seriously want to read about that guy Every Single Time? Personally, I like some variety. I think it shortchanges readers to never offer a suave British vampire or a playful young werewolf or whatever amongst the knuckle-dragging chest beaters. But what do I know?
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We’ll see how it goes. Nothing wasted but some time if they don’t like it.
Wow. It’s been a looooong time since anyone’s called me “wench.” Makes me a little tingly.
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I agree with your assessment of the Alpha ape. (And, as an aside, why do I insist on capitalizing it? I feel…compelled somehow. It’s a whole THING.)
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Long live wounded fang-boys, suave Brit bloodsuckers, and werepuppies who’d rather chase tail than control their bitches’ every move.
As I feel compelled to clarify that my “poor, wounded fangboy” isn’t “boo-hoo-mommy-didn’t-love-me” wounded.
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He’s “they-took-my-frickin’-eyes” wounded.
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(Does it say something about me that I object to writing him as a Neanderthal, but I have no problem whatsoever starving, blinding, and otherwise maiming him?)
By the way, “werepuppies who’d rather chase tail than control their bitches’ every move” would make the most awesomest tag line for a series evah.
A blind, starving vampire? *makes grabby hands* Me WANT. Hurry up and get it published so I can HAVE it.
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As for the werepuppies line, consider it my gift to you.
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