@lilylachance.com
Trans 🏳️🌈, adventurer, author, poet, filmmaker. 🇨🇦 Unagented but seeking. Words in Phano, Gavagai, Bullet Points, and more. Anti-gen-AI absolutist. (No both-siders, ever.) Upward... Ever upward. 🙂🚀🌌
@lilylachance.comOld prophecies are coming true at last. 😉
@lilylachance.comNabokov was an immigrant and not a native English speaker: we have that much in common. All of his linguistic choices were careful and deliberate: for him, the dictionary was a gigantic Lego set. 🙃 I always learn another trick or two whenever I read his stuff...
@lilylachance.comI've just finished reading Nabokov's "Signs and Symbols" — a very short story, but filled with "blink and you'll miss it" implications. An absolute tiny masterpiece, starting with the very first sentence. 💖
@lilylachance.comThe best-ever use of this meme.
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@lilylachance.comGreat little thread of writing advice. :)
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@lilylachance.com😏🤜🤖
@lilylachance.com"I love short stories because I believe they are the way we live. They are what our friends tell us, in their pain and joy, their passion and rage, their yearning and their cry against injustice." Andre Dubus
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@lilylachance.comJust like I planned! :)
@lilylachance.com"Em-dashes mean you're a replicant; fuck off, vile toaster!" (me describing the unintentionally hilarious guidelines page to a friendo) IYKYK 😉
@lilylachance.comIt was, it was! :) (I will, of course, post the link if it gets accepted and published.)
@lilylachance.comAlso, if you missed it (or if you're reading this in the unknowable distant future! 🙃), here is the thread I posted to show how my drafting process works, day by day, from the skeleton until the final draft. I used this week's big story as an example. :)
@lilylachance.comBradbury Challenge, week 40, part 3 😀 The main story I worked on this week was my homage to Swords&Planets sci-fi (a la John Carter) for a themed submission call. Never wrote that in subgenre before — it was a fun exercise! The end result is 6,266 words long. 🫠 I should hear back within a month. 🤞
@lilylachance.comAnd so, aside from teeny-tiny flash stories ( = below 1,000 words), this is what my writing process looks like for *every* story I complete and send out. Tried and true, eh. :) Seems to be working well for me so far, but I'm always to improvement. I hope this was at least a bit helpful. 💓
@lilylachance.comI don't use beta readers because too many of my friends got burned by friendly-seeming sloppers... I find that (again, thanks to Bradbury) I have a slightly different perspective each morning, a slightly altered view with which to consider the story. There is a reason each story takes a week!
@lilylachance.comWhile I was at it, I also simplified a scene where the MC is talking to another important character: less ambiguity, stronger signals. And made a key hint sliiightly more explicit. :)
@lilylachance.comAnd this is what my fifth and final draft looks like. :) This final stage consists of reading the whole thing OUT LOUD - literally, no whispering, no cheating. That helps find *a lot* of little bugs, needless repetitions, awkward phrases, etc. I changed just one word on this page. Can you find it? 😉
@lilylachance.comNet-positive carbon impact FTW! 😈
