grrr

[raspberryhunter]

Last week I wrote the first draft my story for rarewomen and was very pleased with it. Then I let it sit for a week.

Last night I looked at it again, and it's a piece of crap. I think maybe half of it is salvageable; the other half will have to be completely rewritten. Bah.

(...and this is why I usually need at least two months for any sort of fic thing...)

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[raspberryhunter]

Should I reread it?

Maaaaybe? It's not strictly relevant, but there's this feel that she gets in that story, effortlessly, that I'm looking for but that is taking me a lot of effort not to get right.

So I guess we never talked about this, surprisingly! -- I often have problems getting through Cherryh's novels, because they take sustained effort (and I'm really bad at that these days, although this year I've been doing a bit better, so maybe I should go back and try Cyteen) but I think her short stories are marvelous. Well, okay, some are better than others, but the ones I like, I like very much indeed.

[ase]

I think we did talk about it! Mostly in the context of the novels, less the short stories. Do you remember which ones you particularly liked?

[raspberryhunter]

Besides "Unshadowed Land," I particularly like "Pots." Both of these I read in other anthologies. I also have the Collected Short Fiction, and I remember liking quite a few stories from there, but they have all kind of fused together in my head :)