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Graduate student specializing in 18th century British literature with an emphasis on the novel. Lover of John Milton, Jane Austen, and Charlotte Bronte. (Yes, I know none of them published in the 18th century.) Occasional writer of lengthy fictions, seven-time NaNoWriMo participant and former Office of Letters and Light intern. Reader of much young adult and/or fantasy lit. Lifetime lover of Diane Duane's Young Wizards series, recently fanatic about Scott Westerfeld's Leviathan trilogy, blaming it all on Harry Potter. Wanderluster. Left my heart in London, reclaim it bit by bit through tea and Doctor Who and Sherlock and Downton Abbey. |
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playingjax replied to your post: A friend’s facebook post inadvertently reminded me…i saw that post, and definitely sympathized. i also think i remember reading part of that story :) it was cool!
Oh wow yes, I did have you read it once in one of its stages or incarnations! I actually just finished reading it right now and am actually rather impressed with its quality?! Like, there is this whole world there, behind the scenes, that I somehow managed to get across in 5,000 words, alongside the main action of the story?
And then I went and looked back through LJ tags to figure out how old it actually was (I was right it was five years ago), and ran across the comment from the author/editor who had solicited the story in the first place for a short story collection she was editing; ultimately it wasn’t what she was looking for in terms of answering the collection’s prompt but she said that it was one of the five best-written submissions?
1. How did I not remember this?
2. How did this not go horribly to my head? (Because. Let’s face it. It is starting to go to my head now, in retrospect! Now, when I no longer care about getting short stories published!)
