Proportions
Oct. 14th, 2007 10:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mrissaI have been going through moving files to indicate which stories are trunked, which gives me a clearer idea of what stuff I have sitting around started. And so it was easier to make a list. Short story ideas, started enough to have their own file (as opposed to the "starters" file, although some things in it probably should have their own file, but let's not complicate this unduly -- it's not a night for superpowers).
Six fantasy. Thirteen SF.
Hmm. Finished stories are about a third SF. Sold stories, same proportion, roughly, so if people are buying more of one than of the other, they aren't buying that way from me.
But the unfinished bits -- that still look worthwhile, because I tidied several "meh" fragments away into the "fragment trunk" -- reverse that percentage.
I wonder if it's because I've been writing novel-length fantasy, or if it's because I don't get as frustrated with short fantasy stories I've been reading -- but that's been true for awhile -- or what.
I was recently asked for more short fantasy specifically, though.
Hmmmmm. And also hmm.
Also, when I sell SF stories, I often think, "See, I'm still an SF writer!" Whereas I never think, "See, I'm still a fantasy writer!" when I sell fantasy stories.
Hmm.
Feel free to come up with wild theories about the nature of the genre at the moment and/or the nature of my psyche and/or what happens if you remove a physics major from the lab for too long.
Still: hmm.
Six fantasy. Thirteen SF.
Hmm. Finished stories are about a third SF. Sold stories, same proportion, roughly, so if people are buying more of one than of the other, they aren't buying that way from me.
But the unfinished bits -- that still look worthwhile, because I tidied several "meh" fragments away into the "fragment trunk" -- reverse that percentage.
I wonder if it's because I've been writing novel-length fantasy, or if it's because I don't get as frustrated with short fantasy stories I've been reading -- but that's been true for awhile -- or what.
I was recently asked for more short fantasy specifically, though.
Hmmmmm. And also hmm.
Also, when I sell SF stories, I often think, "See, I'm still an SF writer!" Whereas I never think, "See, I'm still a fantasy writer!" when I sell fantasy stories.
Hmm.
Feel free to come up with wild theories about the nature of the genre at the moment and/or the nature of my psyche and/or what happens if you remove a physics major from the lab for too long.
Still: hmm.
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Date: 2007-10-15 03:24 am (UTC)I'm not sure what that makes your psyche.
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Date: 2007-10-15 03:41 am (UTC)Or possibly the elephant's.
Either way I feel sure I am some sort of bumbershoot in this scenario.
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Date: 2007-10-15 01:46 pm (UTC)They come to think of themselves as a Fantasy writer, is apparently what happens.
If that theory isn't wild enough, then go with the bloated flea on the underbelly of a small elephant bit. That sounds good, too.