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Second Chances Doesn’t Make The Preliminary Cut

October 10, 2012 Mathias 7 comments

With the Long List for the Fantasy-Faction Anthology released, you will notice that Second Chances did not make the cut.  Since the six stories to be published will be selected from the long list, Second Chances is now free as the proverbial bird.
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Categories: "Dark Moon", "The War Within", Projects, Short Stories, The Writing Process Tags: Anthology, Darkened Moon, Faction, Fantasy, Free Bird, Novel, October 31st, Second Chances

Jumping In – Second Chances Completed For Submission

June 29, 2012 Mathias 7 comments

Ok, I’ve been rushing to complete my short story Second Chances for submission into a fantasy short story contest to see how things go.  Deadline is fast appraoching, like tomorrow fast, and I have been doing some polishing.

The story follows Kath’ri-sa, an elf, and the deuteragonist of my novel Under the Darkened Moon.  I just like saying the word deuteragonist.  Its sounds so quirky.

Final stats on the short story are 5,941 words, Flesch Reading Ease of 84.3, and Flesch-Kincade Grade Level of 4.1. Read more…

Categories: "The War Within", Editing, Getting Published, Projects, Short Stories, The Writing Process Tags: Darkened Moon, Deuteragonist, Different Styles, Elf, Fantasy Story, Hurdle, Kath, Novel, Second Chances, Short Story Contest, Submission

Submitting, Editing, Reflecting And New Stories

March 12, 2012 Mathias Leave a comment

So much going on. I have finalized my short story Second Chances and am going to starting submitting it for publication. Since it is based as sort of a prologue to my novel Under the Darkened Moon I had to get very close to completion of that project to work out any discrepancies first. As for that novel, it is still in the editing phase. I am about 80% done with my second serious edit. There have been three edits and four versions of the story in all (rough draft, rough edit, first edit and now second edit).

I have learned a lot by writing it including how petty other writers can be and how what one person finds thrilling others find boring. Overall however, reviews from people who have been reading it are positive. You cannot please everyone though. Lots of comments along the lines of, “better than much of what gets published,” in Fantasy literature. So I am encouraged by that.

Right now that novel is sitting as I am working on Her Lovely Blood which is turning into a story that will be not all that unfamiliar to anyone well versed in the stories of ancient Greek gods. No, it is not a copy of one such story. I only mean that it is similar in the sense of the players and how the plot will twist and turn with gods meddling here and there. The trick is going to be to keep the story seeming logical without any, hopefully, unwarranted excursions into the realm of doing something unbelievable to save the story’s heroine from peril.

Right now the novel is 16,666 words and growing by the day. It seems that it will likely be a trilogy or at the least a first book and then a sequel to complete the story arc. The overall ending is unwritten although I do have three alternatives that I am keeping in mind as the story unfolds. This first draft is being free written with very little editing so far.

Categories: "Dark Moon", "Her Lovely Blood", "The War Within", Projects, The Writing Process Tags: Ancient Greek Gods, Darkened Moon, Discrepancies, Fantasy Literature, First Draft, Heroine, Novel, Peril, Prologue, Rough Draft, Second Chances, Sequel, Story Arc, Trilogy
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