I finished a story tonight. I think that it's pretty good. I will work on editing tomorrow and this weekend, and I believe that I'm going to send it out.
It feels good to make a plan and actually stick to it. Self high five!
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What's it about?
A Story about Eddie and Margaret was the novel I was writing. It was well over 200 pages and growing but the story didn't really gel. It didn't really do anything, actually.
Now I've taken key elements from Story and I'm making them into short stories. The concept is still the same, only the name has changed. Already Gone, the newest face of the project , is a collection of short stories based on a small Southern family. It's sort of Southern Gothic, Flannery O'Connor-esque. I'm interested in the way a family shapes and breaks down and reshapes a person or people- for better or for worse. That, essentially, is what Already Gone is about.
Now I've taken key elements from Story and I'm making them into short stories. The concept is still the same, only the name has changed. Already Gone, the newest face of the project , is a collection of short stories based on a small Southern family. It's sort of Southern Gothic, Flannery O'Connor-esque. I'm interested in the way a family shapes and breaks down and reshapes a person or people- for better or for worse. That, essentially, is what Already Gone is about.
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- Eudora Welty--One Writer's Beginnings
- Eudora Welty--The Golden Apples
- Eudora Welty--The Optimist's Daughter
- Flannery O'Connor--The Complete Short Stories
- Flannery O'Connor--The Violent Bear it Away
- Flannery O'Connor--Wise Blood
- Julia Cameron--The Artist's Way
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- Larry McMurtry--Literary Life
- Lee Smith--Black Mountain Breakdown
- Lee Smith--Cakewalk
- Lee Smith--On Agate Hill
- Lee Smith--Oral History
- Lee Smith--Saving Grace
- Lee Smith--The Last Day the Dogbushes Bloomed
- Nabokov--Lolita
- Robert Penn Warren--All the King's Men
- Robert Penn Warren--Night Rider
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