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I need to improve my skills more first
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Keep writing new stories. Then you can go back to the older ones with a fresh eye and more experience. I don't thing there is any better way than writing fresh stuff.

I suspect that the one I wrote in 1991 now needs to just be informational in writing a new version of it from scratch rather than trying (again) to edit it. I can write fast enough to do that in about 10 days. Re-write/Edit is MUCH slower.
 
It's been two years to get my first novel to the point where I thought it was ready. And now I wonder if I should set it aside and consider it "practice" for the next one.

At least I'm almost done with a short story that I'm really happy with. Just another 500 words or so. Yay!
 
Sent off 2 submissions this weekend. One (a competition for a big fat grant) had 8 pages of full colour strip attached which, after working on it solidly for days to meet the deadline, looks like the unfunniest piece of crap I've ever done and a shorter, black and white 5 pager for an anthology. (The one I mentioned a while back that I'd thought of while driving.) Not having spent so long on the five pager I still think it's almost amusing. Not as side-splittingly funny as I thought it was when I wrote it, but passable.
 
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Sent off 2 submissions this weekend. One (a competition for a big fat grant) had 8 pages of full colour strip attached which, after working on it solidly for days to meet the deadline, looks like the unfunniest piece of crap I've ever done and a shorter, black and white 5 pager for an anthology. (The one I mentioned a while back that I'd thought of while driving.) Not having spent so long on the five pager I still think it's almost amusing. Not as side-splittingly funny as I thought it was when I wrote it, but passable.
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I imagine this is the same as a story that's been under edit for an extended period. You've just been looking at it too long.
 
Finished 1st draft of a short story today. My wife read through it and now it's time to work on 2nd draft. Hope that will be enough to get it right!
 
Ray McCarthy said:
More so a problem for humour and visuals than 50K+ straight stories. Esp as you get older and can barely remember page 1 when at page 271. Um what were we talking about?
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I feel your pain. I've got a first draft of over 200k words. The story is in my head but I have no idea what I actually wrote. :-D
 
An anthology I've contributed art to is currently on Kickstarter. (GO MAKE ME RICH! - or at least paid for my work!) All the other stuff I've done for the last few of weeks is in slush piles waiting for someone to write me a rejection letter.

To take a break from sending things off into the void and having no instant feedback (Comedy is nothing without instant feedback - waiting 3 months for a laugh is PAINFUL.) I'm getting back to a four page strip that I started a while ago and will never send anywhere because A: the joke is SO bad no one would buy it and B: the obvious copyright problems.... here's a sample of work in progress:



I'm getting better at hands...

EDIT: Just noticed one of the FREE (PDF) comics given to backers at any level contains another 4 pages of my art and yet another four pages that I lettered.
 
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Currently about 10 times slower than usual this week, a bit unwell. So after 5 days only about half way on 139 annotations of "Conspiracies and Rooks", about 89K words. I don't much care about length as long as the story is sufficiently complete, not padded or summarised and good.
 
OK, Last Dog Standing Book 1 published, Crater edited and epublished, onto the sequel of Space Zombie Holiday, aka Sil's Bar. Nothing quite like editing zombies on a Monday...
 
Weekly Status
2 - Poems

5 - rejections (one poetry submission)
11 - Submissions (the above 5 plus 5 to another market and one singleton)
 
Was depressed with #6 "Exiles and Rooks", yet #7, #8, #9 and 10th novels are great. Solution? Put it on ice till I work out a better plot for it. Mustn't waste time, so writing #11 in series, "Dwarves and Rooks". I could obviously write something unconnected, but I like the "storyverse" and the characters. I do have an unconnected SF work, a Fantasy from 1992 that needs re-written and five WIP in the "Talents Universe". I thought the #9 of it was certainly the end, but I did a draft of a 10th. Not sure though that I'll ever edit/polish it up into a proper novel, #9 "The Mission's Talent" is really a good place to stop on the series. I don't want it to be like Pern or Dune. Thankfully nothing like the Wheel of Time. Though there is an overarching plot of a slight nature, each novel is a real complete story.
 
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