[Writingworkshop] Last Person Singular

Adam Holland adam.holland at gmail.com
Fri Jun 19 10:52:21 EDT 2009


wow!

Excited to read it.
And I hope to have some comments on the Uncomfortablists soon.

On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 10:20 AM, Neale Morison <neale at nealemorison.com>wrote:

> http://www.nealemorison.com/writing/shortstories/LastPersonSingular.pdf
>
> The lead character in this story is someone you may recognize from Joe
> Haldeman's forum. He's been very helpful and reviewed it. He says he doesn't
> find it intrusive or exploitative.
>
> I looked back over the forum posts and I asked him if I could use him on 18
> May. After I finished off Specs on 23rd May I spent a week and a half
> thinking about this and  started writing  on  3rd June. This took 12 days at
> a little over 850 words a day for the first draft. Then I trickled out  a
> second draft with minor tweaks at couple of hundred words a day.
>
> I'm starting to get over the compulsion to keep on going without a break
> for fear I'll never finish the story. It's a reasonable fear though. I have
> a long backlog of things started and not finished.
>
> I sent Specs to Asimov Magazine. We shall see.
>
> All the best,
> Neale
>
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