Today, the results came back for my story, "Returning from the Grave", that I sent to Style Weekly's Fifth Annual Fiction Contest. While the story did not win first, second or third place, it did make it to the final round. This makes twice this year one of my stories came close, yet just didn't have that special something to push it over the top. While there is obviously room for improvement, I do feel I am making progress.
This was a first for me for three reasons:
First, being I that had to work within a 2000 word limit, it precluded me from writing a SF&F story. Therefore, I wrote a non-genre story. No speculative elements. However, I discovered that I did enjoy writing it. I got the same rush as I do for genre stories. Don't worry! I doubt I'll veer from SF&F.
Second, the viewpoint character was female. Being male, I've always shied away from the viewpoint of the opposite gender, however, this did not prove an obstable at all.
Third, since it was only 2000 words, and being non-genre had little exposition, I wrote it in a day's time, discounting the halfday of editing. Of course, had I spent more time with it, perhaps it would have placed!
Wednesday, August 8, 2007
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