Writerly Ways

[cornerofmadness]

Just a quick writerly ways but I DO want your opinions on something.

We all know I finish nanowrimo and many snippets are up on the locked filter if anyone is interested.

I wanted to share this with everyone - Dreanspinner Press Open calls These are the open call anthologies for Dreamspinner (who had a ton of Rainbow award winners this weekend which is a fairly large gay literature award)

I am very interested in only one, the steampunk one (yes I know I still own winters_queen a het steampunk that is started but not finished because I suck). I am curiously what would YOU guys like to see in a steampunk story (keeping in mind that yes, this must at least include m/m romance). I would probably prefer to write a mystery sort maybe (those are hard to do in 12K or less).

Or how about this, what would you NOT like to see in a steampunk story. What's been overdone in your opinion. I'm curious. I know I want to do this.I'm curious as to what people would like to see.

And here's my yearly word count. I set it at 150K originally. Then put it at 175K. I've upped it one last time to 210,000

202373 / 210000 words. 96% done!

Comments

[winters-queen.livejournal.com]

:) I know things have been going on that you've been busy with.

Huh, maybe I'll give it another go for the open call for the steampunk one. Even though I told myself I would take a break from it and work on more traditional fantasy, UF or sci-fi.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

thanks

you have half a year for this one so....

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

I don't know, because I've only read steampunk you've written or I've written or FMA fanfic, sooooo

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

hmmmm that's a help :-P

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Hee hee hee.

[sholio]

I was eyeballing that open call myself. :D

As for what I want from steampunk -- you know, I think the thing I want most is more steampunk that's not Victorian/Georgian England. Steampunk that's set in different countries and different eras. Because really, I like the idea of steampunk a lot, and I love its gears/steam/dirigible trappings, but that particular era bores me senseless and feels tremendously overdone. So I'm always on the lookout for steampunk that is a little bit different.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

thank you, I feel the same. So far I like steampunk more in theory than execution. I like the Victorian era but I can not argue that it's over done.

they've already told me that my story is in the Hudson Valley and that his money comes from the family business in timber and furs and he uses that to be a mad inventor while his younger brother mans the business. Now if I had more time I could get started (but I don't want to lose momentum on the nano. I must get that done)

[sholio]

Ooh, I like the sound of that one! :D (But yes, the NaNo takes priority.)

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

thank you.

I have what? over half a year for the steampunk deadline.

I'm great at letting my nano's go to the wayside after Nov. I will not do that this time