Shout box

Shweta · Feb 28, 2009

Posted to SYW, or another forum, and want comments? Want to think out loud about a WIP? Discuss what's making your brane explodify?

Here's a place for it.

ETA: Thinking about this as a "Share Your Work Starbucks" equivalent. For general conversation rather than WIP conversation, there's the salon.

mscelina · Feb 28, 2009

ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGH!

I'm trying to query a paranormal romance/dark/urban fantasy/time traveling/historical/thriller/mystery/theater novel.

Does that fit into this shout box? Cause it sure as hell makes me change my query letter according to the agent I query. What a pain in the ass.

Shweta · Feb 28, 2009

Might be more of a tea salon conversation? Shout box being more of a sandboxy place? I dunno!

Gray Rose · Feb 28, 2009

Here is a link to an interstitial brane-eating poem of mine, which is accidentally the first post in the Interstices SYW:

http://www.absolutewrite.com/forums/showthread.php?p=3343167#post3343167

Critiques would be very very welcome!

Mscelina, I think your situation almost calls for tailoring, no?

mscelina · Mar 1, 2009

Oh, I can tailor with the best of them. Paranormal romance on one letter, urban fantasy on another...whatever they like, that's what I make it.

Eventually, someone will figure it out I guess.

Izz · Mar 1, 2009

Wouldn't mind a crit or two on this flash piece i've just posted:

Night Terrors

I personally kinda like it (but what writer doesn't like his own stuff, right?), but it does need help

Thanks
Iz

Williebee · Mar 1, 2009

Iz, your link doesn't work. (whoops)

Your piece is here.

Izz · Mar 1, 2009

Wow - so that's what happens when there's an extra http:\\ in the address - i end up on a czech phishing site.

Corrected, and thank Williebee

Haggis · Mar 1, 2009

But Isacc, a czech phishing site seems perfect for Interstices.

Sorry, guys. I'm still trying to figure this all out, but I'm getting closer.

Izz · Mar 1, 2009

Yes, it does, doesn't it?

Shweta · Mar 1, 2009

Haggis said:
Sorry, guys. I'm still trying to figure this all out, but I'm getting closer.

*points at her user title*

Haggis · Mar 1, 2009

Shweta said:
*points at her user title*

Okay. I'm seeing two directions for this...thing thing we call Interstices. One is what I might have called Surreal. You know. Like mushrooms talking to squids. The other is, well, stories that don't follow a normal path yet make a little bit more sense. An example that comes to mind is one I read yesterday in Arkham Tales--The Key Ring, by Garret Calcaterra. (It's a free download folks, go do it.

) It's a great story. Does it fit the genre?

eta: a little bit about the story--it's about a house with many rooms, only they're not normal rooms.

Shweta · Mar 1, 2009

I'm hoping this thing we call Interstices will go in more than two directions, all at once. But those are two of the directions I'm hoping it'll take

backslashbaby · Mar 2, 2009

Hello!!

Is this where I can say that I'm into Magical Realism, satire and existential literature but know next to nothing about sci-fi? Surrealism is kinda iffy for me, depending on my mood.

Is it OK that I'm trying to avoid learning more sci-fi until my MR novel is complete? I'll find it creeping into what I want to be solidly MR (or MR/satire/existentialism, which is a lovely little mess to have screaming at your writer's brain in itself!)

Forgive my inattention to many of your favorite topics, pretty please?

Shweta · Mar 2, 2009

Welcome!
Try the salon?

It's an actively good thing, I think, that you come from a different literary background from a lot of us

Gray Rose · Mar 2, 2009

backslashbaby said:
Hello!! Is this where I can say that I'm into Magical Realism, satire and existential literature but know next to nothing about sci-fi? Surrealism is kinda iffy for me, depending on my mood.

Is it OK that I'm trying to avoid learning more sci-fi until my MR novel is complete? I'll find it creeping into what I want to be solidly MR (or MR/satire/existentialism, which is a lovely little mess to have screaming at your writer's brain in itself!)

Forgive my inattention to many of your favorite topics, pretty please?

Hey and welcome! Awesome to have yo uhere. My origins are in spec fic, but I'm writing a MR story right now...

AMCrenshaw · Mar 2, 2009

I've posted Eigengrau, a dreamlet, in SYW.

AMC

Shweta · Mar 2, 2009

Link to Eigengrau

Izz · Mar 4, 2009

Um, i has another shout out for crit *looks embarrassed*.

I'm not gonna hog the SYW too much, i swear. It's just that this one made its way back to me tonight with a form reject (as did the other one a couple days ago) and this forum is now here and it all seems very fortuituous

Money for Nothing, the Stars for a Fee

Thanks in advance for any comment

Iz

ETA: tested link, no Czech phishing site this time :tongue

Pagey's_Girl · Mar 5, 2009

This might sound really dumb, but I'm starting to wonder if maybe my stuff is more interstitial than straight horror? I don't know what to call what I write...

If anyone wants to check it out - The Island

AMCrenshaw · Mar 24, 2009

Posted work in SYW. Don't forget about Eigengrau, either! I am trying to make it a readable story.

AMC

Izz · Mar 24, 2009

Hey AMC, i've posted links to your pieces just below for ease of access for people reading this thread

Hopefully i'll have a chance to look at them within the next day or two.

Love Thy Neighbor

Riddles of the Sphinx and Two Dreamlets

Also, now that i've been reminded of this thread, I've posted a revision, and now some edits, for this story, Money for Nothing, the Stars for a Fee, and would love any further crit.

Iz

Esopha · Apr 7, 2009

I don't know if this is interstitial. It's another fairytale (because I can't rid myself of writing fairytales.) There is some mention of sexxorz.

Greenfingers

Vincent · Apr 22, 2009

Got a WIP over in SYW

http://www.absolutewrite.com/forums/showthread.php?p=3522819#post3522819

EDIT

Scratch that. Removed.

AMCrenshaw · May 1, 2009

gotta fun one in syw.

enjoi amc

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