Next short story... I deleted.
Added 2019-12-15 21:23:07 +0000 UTCSo I finished the next short story I was going to release. I edited it myself and gave it one final read-through before handing it over to you all.
Coming at it from the perspective of a reader, It was BORING TRASH.
With my review hat on, I saw it lacking substance of any kind outside of a quirky character showing small things about the world. The only reason I wrote it was the better realize things about the world for myself. It was a writing exercise posing as a story.
To put that out for you all on Patreon would be a waste of your time, and not live up to the bar I want to set for myself.
If you are very curious, it was about a torturer for the Empire extracting information that lead up to events where my actual book begins. The problem is, that is not the tone or feeling I want any reader to have jumping into the story I am working on. So I refuse to let it be anyone's first look into the actual events of the book.
I have decided instead to write the other side of things for the third and final short story. This will actually be a STORY (not an exercise), of rebels working from within the empire to... accomplish a secret goal.
So while I have been working a lot on my world-building, practice does not === something I want to put out.
Hold fast. More shall come.
Comments
i hope you're going to eventually release it for those of us who WANT to see an early draft of a concept that is particularly-not-up-to-standards. not to criticize you for how bad it may or may not be, but to LEARN THE DIFFERENCE between a good draft according to your standards, and one that doesn't get close enough to the mark to even consider editing for future commercial release.
billy alarie
2020-05-01 17:33:34 +0000 UTCGood on you for self-editing. Sometimes you just write things for yourself, and that's ok.
Carol E
2019-12-31 16:33:31 +0000 UTC
