With the reading period within a day of ending for many of the literary journals, I’m frantically reading, reading and rewriting a story that just showed up in my brain a couple days ago. It seems I put a good part of my day and night into tweaking it, then notice more that could be edited just when I thought I might be done.
Last go-round was with a “storytelling” voice that I figured I’d borrowed from a friend. This morning it seems like not only is there a lack of dialogue, that dialogue would be better as a ‘showing’ than the blah-blah-blah background I have. Why don’t I know these things as I’m writing or at least find them faster in the editing?
I really, really need more willing-to-help writer friends or take a class or something.
The Lost Children: A Charity Anthology