Writerly Ways

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!