Posted by DLThurston in Short Stories, State of the Writer on April 1, 2011
Another month has come and gone, so as I am want to do, a little bit of navel gazing. I’m oddly happy with March, I feel it’s been one of my better writing months in a long time. And I credit that to one thing: Short Stories. I never used to be a fan of writing short stories, though can’t really say why. I think it went back to my first real writing project being a novel and feeling like the longer form was somehow a more worthy endeavor. In the end, though, the short story has given me a chance to explore thoughts quickly, make every word count, and in the end I think I’ve really grown as a writer.
Now the next trick is to keep it up.
I got one short story out the door this month, Vampire of Mars. I’m happier with it than I have been any other story in awhile. It might not find a home the first place I sent it to, but it’s going to go into heavy circulation until someone picks it up. And it’s the first story I’ve written where I can say with real confidence: someone will pick it up.
April will mean a return to my Luchador story, and potentially some work on an idea germinating about a marshy Venus, in keeping with my Unleaded post this week.
Just because it’s been a good month doesn’t mean it’s any time for me to rest. Always onwards. Always forward.
State of the Writer, The Face of the Serpent, The Luchador, Unleaded, Vampires of Mars
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DL Thurston's short fiction is available now in the Steam Works anthology, and coming soon in The Memory Eater and The Old Weird South. He also contributes regularly to the group blog Unleaded, Fuel for Writers and the online 5 Minute Fiction writing challenge. He lives in Annandale, VA with his wife and two cats.
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