It’s been a productive week.
I’ve been using AI to do a chapter-by-chapter analysis of Soiled Undies. There are some things AI is not good at but, when it comes to technical analysis, it is very useful. Or maybe I just like the way the obsequious chatbot shines my wheels.
Today we’ll look at the epilogue, then next week I will go back through the manuscript making a few technical tweaks, which largely consist of minor adjustments in event order or adding a beat for tension before a key reveal. Just craft details, no structural changes or rewrites. After that, AI and I will embark on a quest to find an author’s agent.
Meanwhile…
I’ve written 5000+ words more into my current fantasy adventure. Fun. Happy it hasn’t stalled out yet. In any project there will be rough patches. I’m 23000 words in so far. 23085 if we’re being precise. I’m a pantser not a plotter which means I don’t plot the story before I write it. Because I don’t know how it will end or even where it will go, every story is an adventure for me. I just follow the characters along for the ride and hope they take me somewhere worth writing about.
Anthologies.
If you’re going to write, write. Thanks to Substack’s great writing community, I’ve found some publications that suit my style of speculative fiction. Publishers like Raconteur Press and A Place Like Midnight publish short speculative fiction anthologies. These usually focus on a singular uniting theme. Two of my shorts fit some upcoming anthology themes, so I have decided to submit them. But I also realized I can use other themes as writing prompts and so far, have come up with two fun speculative fiction shorts based on the proposed theme. If nothing else, it is a great writing exercise to flex my imagination in service to a predetermined theme.
So, a busy but productive week.
And of course, today I posted my weekly Substack story:
https://brainsoupfic.substack.com/p/they-came-back-changed
