The duel gets kind of messy.
Apr. 11th, 2011 02:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mrissaI just sold a short story, "The Witch's Second," to Beneath Ceaseless Skies.
This story came about because I was in the middle of writing "The Witch's Second Daughter," and due to line breaks or something I just saw the first three words, and I thought, well, that's another title.
I don't think I'll be trying to write either "The Witch's" or "The Witch's Second Daughter Simpers" or the like, but one never knows. (I chose "simpers" there because it was the verb that seemed least likely to tempt me; my brain has already supplied "recants" as an alternate verb of more interest. Hush, brain.)
ETA: Uh, that appears to make my 80th short story sale.
I totally get sushi.
This story came about because I was in the middle of writing "The Witch's Second Daughter," and due to line breaks or something I just saw the first three words, and I thought, well, that's another title.
I don't think I'll be trying to write either "The Witch's" or "The Witch's Second Daughter Simpers" or the like, but one never knows. (I chose "simpers" there because it was the verb that seemed least likely to tempt me; my brain has already supplied "recants" as an alternate verb of more interest. Hush, brain.)
ETA: Uh, that appears to make my 80th short story sale.
I totally get sushi.
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Date: 2011-04-11 07:43 pm (UTC)(And congratulations on the sale, of course!)
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Date: 2011-04-11 07:44 pm (UTC)Congratulations! Happy sushifying!
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Date: 2011-04-11 07:52 pm (UTC)If there was any market for short YA, I would totally write that. I might still.
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Date: 2011-04-11 07:51 pm (UTC)It was fantastic.
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Date: 2011-04-11 07:54 pm (UTC)Thing is,
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Date: 2011-04-11 07:57 pm (UTC)...or is that too recursive?
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Date: 2011-04-11 07:59 pm (UTC)"Recants" is very good. I would be intrigued. :) "Repents" might be interesting as well.
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Date: 2011-04-11 08:53 pm (UTC)The Witch's Second Daughter's Husband's Stepson's Best Friend's Dog
Go!
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Date: 2011-04-11 09:10 pm (UTC)"Absolutely nothing!"
See, in my family Spaceballs so often gets it wrong. I had a relative, for example, who was my grandma's eldest sister-in-law's best friend. What did that make us? Family.
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Date: 2011-04-11 10:05 pm (UTC)"The Witch's Second Daughter Goes to College."
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Date: 2011-04-12 12:12 am (UTC)And well...you had me at simpers and sushi so what do I know?*
*not together, of course. Too hard to eat sushi that way. (I've heard.)
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