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Never say Never
So, The Nameless now weighs in at a hefty 11,583 words and feels like a Real Story. The missing scene has been added, the last scene tightened up, and some lost threads gathered into the weave. I'm tentatively pleased, though it still needs a final, stern and ungiving going over after it rests awhile, and really ought to have someone sane read it before it goes wandering out to look for a job. Also a title. At this point, I'm thinking Toccata and Fugue in D Minor.
For a kick, I went over and looked at the guidelines for Scifi.com and note that they don't publish sword-and-sorcery or space opera. I'm pretty sure that what I have here isn't sword-and-sorcery, but the last time I looked space opera was what I pointed at it when I said it. Given my Known Habits, though, I'm guessing The Nameless is "space opera" by the definition used by the Scifi.com editors. Ah, well. Twenty cents a word would've been cool.
In other news, we have gone to the grocery store and committed Shopping. The laundry is being done in stages, and a pile of Stuff To Take to the Ocean is slowly growing in the living room. Today's word to the hopeful freelancer is: When you Have Money, Buy in Advance; that way, nobody can take your vacation away from you.
For a kick, I went over and looked at the guidelines for Scifi.com and note that they don't publish sword-and-sorcery or space opera. I'm pretty sure that what I have here isn't sword-and-sorcery, but the last time I looked space opera was what I pointed at it when I said it. Given my Known Habits, though, I'm guessing The Nameless is "space opera" by the definition used by the Scifi.com editors. Ah, well. Twenty cents a word would've been cool.
In other news, we have gone to the grocery store and committed Shopping. The laundry is being done in stages, and a pile of Stuff To Take to the Ocean is slowly growing in the living room. Today's word to the hopeful freelancer is: When you Have Money, Buy in Advance; that way, nobody can take your vacation away from you.
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Postmodern. Datlow seems to be attracted to the kewlth factor of postmodernism in sf--not to mention poststructuralism when she can get it.
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Well, the energy creature definitely espouses a postmodern philosophy, and if the idea of poststructuralism is to twist/challenge the readers' core understanding of language and narrative structure... Might go. I'll be able to look at the story with a more objective eye after we come back from the ocean and might then be able to figure out what it is. Besides Odd and Disturbing.