Short Stories

[alanajoli]

Here it is, already December, and I have short stories banging on my door to be written in between the skads of reference work I've managed to bury myself in. As is my usual, since my deadlines are a little bit away, and I just finished a project, I'm letting myself breathe. If I followed this tendency a little less, I would probably not go psycho when my deadline rolled around. I don't consider it procrastination, exactly--it's not like I'm doing things other than work to avoid work, I've just put relaxing higher on the priority list for now.

Enter psycho-busy 'Lana who didn't blog for a week because she was knee deep in coding-author-biographies-xml-help!

But now that I'm on top of the pile for a moment (or have only fallen in up to my ankles as it begins to pile around me again), I wrote two new script pages for Cowboys and Aliens, did some brainstorming with Jeremy Mohler on Worlds at War, and in general got that part of my schedule straightened out for a week or so. I still need some bonus pages, I believe, but nothing I can't manage.

The short stories on the other hand... well, I had three scheduled for December/January, but it looks like one, that was for a contest, is going to get dropped from my plate. (This is okay, since I think tltrent's piece that I hope she's submitting will rock all the other submissions out of the water. *g*) Which leaves me with two. And they have names, so I'll actually put up the word counts here.

Wish me luck!

"Saving Tara"

359 / 5,000 (7.2%)

"Choosing Fate"

0 / 5,000 (0.0%)

(This one is waiting for the synopsis to be approved by the editor, as it's a work-for-hire rather than straight fiction.)

Comments

[matt-m-mcelroy.livejournal.com]

I might have something to add to your list after the new site launches too.

What are these tales about?

[alanajoli.livejournal.com]

"Saving Tara" is the one I did the locked Tuesday Teaser from a couple weeks back. So it's an Irish Myth/Current Issues story.

"Choosing Fate" is for the campaign setting of Crown for an upcoming anthology. I don't actually know off the top of my head who the publisher is, but I can find out! It's a gig I'm working on through Empty Room Studios.

[holmes-iv.livejournal.com]

See, you're just doing this to make me feel bad about the two 500-1000 word compositions I'm supposed to knock off this week. Bah. Shame on you! ;-)

[alanajoli.livejournal.com]

Well, hey, I'm not doing full time code writing on the side... ;)