I’m still really busy at work, but, now, that Superego is done, I’ll try to focus on more and better funny from yours truly.
As for Superego, we’ll soon have something like an IMAO bookclub meeting where we’ll discuss the story. Now, I want to be a novelist and have been part of a writing group, but there is no way I’d show them that story. A lot of its failings had to do with me writing it serially without much of a plan and that my first draft for each part was also the last draft, but I’d like to go into detail in where I think it was lacking (and also what I liked about it and where it had promise). If everyone who read it would join in the critique, that would be great.
If you’re all really good, I might even tell you why there’s a question mark at the end.
And, for IMAudiO fans, it looks like we’ll be getting back into the once a week habit, this time with Wednesday morning releases.
Be honorable, ronin.
First!!!
I wouldn’t call any part of the story a “failing”. This kind of exersize (no drafts, just write a story with no set ending in mind, just to see where it goes) is actually a common writing exersize. I would be proud to show this off to any writing group. It’s an interesting GOOD story.
In fact, I daresay you could expand on the short story and turn it into a novel in it’s own right. And put me down for two copies, while you’re at it. (One hardback for me, one softcover to let all my friends borrow)
Charles.
Superego wasn’t really my favorite kind of story, but I still found myself reading the whole thing. I thought it was pretty good. I agree with you that it seemed like it would have been better if you spent some more time on it. Then again, my writing pales in comparison to that of the mighty Frankj.
If the ‘bookclub meeting’ is going to be done over the ‘net in some way, count me in. The only things I spotted really were some errors in grammar [easy to fix], no real plot problems of any kind [good writing Frank! It’s very hard to write fiction without at least a few huge plot gaps].
And I have theories as to the question mark, but I’m not going to spoil anything in case I guessed right 🙂
More cowbell.
Just to get my $0.02 in: I’m not the only one who thinks it would make a great oversized, soft-back, illustrated book with the right artist to render every other page of the story in comic book fashion. You know, the right page has the story and the left page has an illustration to depict that part of the story.
I’d actually buy it.
UZI4U,
It will be a post where I do my own critique and then everyone else can chime in in the comments.
Oyster,
Artists sound expensive.
I hope you are a real whole lot funnier in the future cause that loser (me) posting on your site sucks.
FrankJ? You ought to post your Superego story in the Baen “Astounding Slush” conference. Jim Baen’s trying to put together a SciFi magazine, and he might like this one.
-Albert
Albert,
Okay. I did.