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What I'm writing for class, at least the first one, is just straight SF.

It's cool that you're published! Wow. I used to do some fanfic, but otherwise I haven't even done web publishing. I have several dozen started stories. Always seem to flame out either at 7000 words or at 43,000.

OK, I worked out. I THINK it might have been easier than Monday, but not by much.

Having a glass of water and some yogurt quickly before headin' to church...then I gotta come home and make real dinner with leftovers for lunch tomorrow.

I'll be back in time for tea with 2J...and to bug Jen about her workout. ;-)

> What I'm writing for class, at least the first one, is just straight SF.

Cool. Sounds like that'll be a fun class! If you feel like showing your story to anyone when it's done, feel free to pass it on. I used to be part of a writing club where we'd critique each others' SF work, found it was pretty helpful.

> It's cool that you're published! Wow.

Thanks; but I hope I didn't make it sound misleading, LOL! Like I said, so far it's minor stuff--I won an annual essay contest at my school's history department which they published, got a few poems published in a school magazine, wrote the narration for a documentary my friend filmed for a local cable station, and most recently I've done some ad-writing for my friend's company. I have several articles and a couple nonfiction manuscripts that are close to being publishable, but I've procrastinated from finishing and submitting them, partly because of the perfectionist thing I mention, and partly because I get anxious over the marketing phase of the process, which I find somewhat intimidating. The novel I'm working on now is the first full-length fiction I've attempted. I think it's a good story, but right now it's too short--gotta figure out how to add 150 pages, ugh.

> I used to do some fanfic,

That's actually how I got started on the novel I'm working on. What kind of fanfic did you write?

> but otherwise I haven't even done web publishing. I have several dozen started stories. Always seem to flame out either at 7000 words or at 43,000.

Any idea why it flames out at that point?