final chapter of Selena City

[miriam_e]

Not sure about this. It was the second thing I mapped out when I came up with the story more than a year ago. In writing this today from those old notes I found a lot of things had changed, though mostly it flowed pretty-much as I'd originally intended. My initial wish was to have the ending paragraphs as I've written them here, but I'm finding it hard to get perspective. Does it work? Or is the end stupid? Is the whole final chapter a mistake? I have no idea.

There were a couple of other things I wanted to put in, but they got squeezed out... oh well... maybe they'll make it into the rewrites.

I'm exhausted. I should have spent a couple of days on this instead of pushing it all into today. Doesn't bode well for next NaNo. [gulp]

Anyway... this final chapter:
http://miriam-english.org/stories/selena/18-solution.html

The index page for the whole thing:
http://miriam-english.org/stories/selena/index.html

Let me know what you think.

Comments

[cranky--crocus.livejournal.com]

It isn't online somewhere--I've thought about it but it's so old I haven't--but I would be willing to send it.

IF...
Would you promise not to laugh at it? I wrote it when I was fifteen basically in three days, ten thousand words a night after school before homework. So it's no good but can be a fun read and is just a nice happy ending fluff fiction.

I would be willing to email it if you thought you could get through it despite grammar issues and general plot badness because it hasn't been edited or touched since I wrote it years ago.

[miriam-e.livejournal.com]

I would love to read it. And I promise not to laugh. I'm certain I'll be impressed. I'm already amazed that you could write 10,000 words a night before homework. What a fertile mind! Keep up that level of productivity and there'll never be any stopping you.

I struggle to push out a couple of thousand words a day even when I've managed to get rid of all other commitments!!!

[cranky--crocus.livejournal.com]

Alright! I'll send them over to you, then. I doubt you'll be impressed but at least it can be a fun read sometimes. I'm amazed I could write 10,000 words a night before homework as well. I don't doubt I could still do it, though. Last November I was sick one of the first days of NaNo and I might have cranked out 13,000 words, but I'm not sure. It could have been 6,000 and then soon many more. I can sit down and write quickly without stopping. That's what makes me wonder if I could be a writer--even if I didn't write well, writing quickly can be a great asset in the market.