A start on a short story (800 words)

[ritaxis]

I will have this done by the end of the month. I will. I will meet deadlines with it. I will.

It will not turn into a treatment for a novel. It won't.

(it's about the relationships among some people in a high-unemployment, aging-population future. How do we manage an aging population with high unemployment? Overproduction and stagnation, of course. But it's not a bleak story at all, it's all full of squishy hope goodness)

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[julesjones]

It will not turn into a treatment for a novel. It won't.

Yeah, and I'll write something that is hard sf and nothing to do with smut at all. :^)

[ritaxis.livejournal.com]

Well. How about you write something that is hard sf and only a little bit to do with smut, and I'll let a treatment for a novel happen if it wants to, as long as I get a standalone story out of it too?

Compromise, see?

Where are you right now, anyway? I mean, physically?

[beth-bernobich.livejournal.com]

*delurking*

It will not turn into a treatment for a novel. It won't.

Resistance is futile! she says, eyeing her own list of novels-to-write.

it's about the relationships among some people in a high-unemployment, aging-population future.

Oooo. Intriguing!

[ritaxis.livejournal.com]

Well. I have a long list of novels to write too, beyond what I'm working on, but I think I have to do some stories.

And, this is the real thing: I'll never, probably, feel like spending 6 weeks away from my life and my sweetie, so Clarion won't happen, I don't think. But there's Potlatch. And Potlatch is stories. And it has a deadline. So this thing has to be a story and I have to finish it by January 31 or I'm a rotten egg.

[julesjones]

Where are you right now, anyway? I mean, physically?

In Belfast, and amongst other things contemplating various things relevant to the rasfc discussion on speech patterns. The Belfast accent is distinctive. :-)