14 Jun ’24: I'm not sure why, but the impulse to post something here struck. Along that theme, I'm struck by how many comments and private DMs I've gotten recently in which the writer editorializes on things that didn't happen in the story. Not as in, "Hey, here's a non-related interesting topic." More as in, "That thing in your story [which isn't in the story] needs a critique and/or a rant." It seems like things are getting brushed with pet-peeve-paint, but since most of them are Anonymouses, it's not even possible to have a discussion.
And from struck to stuck: the next episode in The Loft Game is stuck at 133% done. By that I mean, it's a third too long, and messy, and reining it in and knocking it into shape seems problematic. I suppose I'll get there eventually.
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I tend to like stories with flawed, even badly flawed, protagonists because I find them more human than the paragons of perfection. I also tend to like stories that have a slightly slower pace because I like to sit with characters for more than a page or two. So, a number of my stories are likely to be of those types.
That said, I also find it interesting to try different things: style, perspective, length. I know that something like the romance "Coming Back Home" is different in style and tone from the porn-horror piece "One Night in Manhattan," which is, in turn, different from the retelling of a Greek myth in "Metamorphoses" or one of my Christmas stories.
I'm sure some of these efforts will succeed and some will fail; I'm not a good enough writer to please everyone. If something's not your kind of story, I won't complain. I do wish you enjoyment with what you do like. Drop me a message if you're so inclined. I try to respond to them all.
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