Author-ized L.J.
Got holiday travels & visits done ahead of the actual holiday this time. My plan to complete the current short story ahead of the new year is probably shot since New Year's is *checks time* tomorrow, but hey, I can try a running start xD Maybe I can get the bones of it down, at least. #amWriting #LjWrites
Feb 16 at 10:34amWeb
Show threadAuthor-ized L.J.Feb 16

Oh, so it's going to be a piece with unusual formatting needs? I guess it's going to be. Not my preference because I know it'll be a hardship or at least an annoyance for any market that might take this on, but at least it's two columns rather than three this time and there are no line break requirements unlike the too-precious-for-this-world formatting of that poem last year--which actually did get a taker, many thanks to The Carrier Bag for running it AND formatting it beautifully!

The current piece is shaping up to be kind of an extended narrative prose poem, and since I've written & sold a narrative poem before (transfeminine Mulan hurray!), the only new-to-me aspects with the current story are that it's freeform/prose poetry and the occasional two-column formatting. I refuse to get weirder with the format than that because I'm already being an annoyance to MYSELF, not knowing how to handle two columns gracefully in Emacs  I do not count tables for columns as a graceful solution, but that may be how I have to proceed because I don't want to take this to LibreOffice so soon and miss out on version tracking in the drafting stage *grumble*

Show threadAuthor-ized L.J.Feb 16
The deeper I step into the rippling bog of this project, the more I suspect the market I currently have in mind won't want it and/or it'll be too different from other submissions to fit in--which is fine, it's not like I'm ever dead set on a specific outlet taking a piece, if I had been my writerly heart would have long since withered wouldn't it xD I have a few reasons for making this call my first choice, and at any rate I use submission deadlines as a means to motivate my adhd brain and shouldn't self-reject--as long as the piece meets the requirements of the call, of course. (Not submitting to a call that doesn't fit isn't self-rejection, it's just a basic courtesy that saves everyone but especially swamped readers and editors time & effort.) If it's rejected I can fiddle around with it some more until a call for this type of thing rolls around again. This time I'll be ready, assuming I can finish the dam, I mean damned thing!
Show threadAuthor-ized L.J.Feb 16
As expected, I won't be first-drafting the short story (or long prose poem) ahead of New Year's Day which is in like 5 minutes now, but I reached a compromise goal by writing the opening & one of the super speshal formatting parts and sketching out a very brief outline in the file. While I didn't meet my original time goal, at least I got started and have a dim path to the end. Spending tomorrow intensively drafting will be a meaningful experience in itself!