Short – but is it sweet
This weekend I wrote a short story. Well actually I wrote the entire thing on Friday night then spent most of the weekend adding, rearranging and changing it.
The story is set in the same universe as Lexi however it is unrelated to the Coradonna Lost story. Sort of.
I have never really written a short story like this before but I wanted to enter a contest at a conference I am going to and I needed a short story to do it. So I decided to try. I like the story I wrote but I have to admit that I think short stories are a little harder then novels. There is no time to develop plot, or characters or anything. I prefer writing longer things where the story has time to take shape and the characters have a chance to learn and grow.
Not that I will not try my hand (or pen) at another short story. I have several ideas of events that happen in Lexi’s world that would fit a short story format. But I think that this will be a skill that takes some time to hone and perfect. I will be working on this particular short story for a few more weeks before I send it off to the contest.
I am not crossing my fingers that I will win, however I am excited about the experience of giving my work away to someone to be read.
Things are on hold with Coradonna Lost right now and will be for a while. I am working on it but very slowly and I am not sure that I will send the next round of queries until September after some more editing and such. I may change my mind but I know that I have some work to do before the next round of queries is ready to go out and I am not sure I can get through that before September.