writing process
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This weekend, we finished prepping the second short story we wrote for a specific call for submissions. This one had a limit of 12,000 words, which was a huge challenge. We decided to write a rough draft without obsessively checking the word count and pare down as needed when we were finished. As it turns…
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As I mentioned in the previous post, we selected a call for submissions prompt and wrote a story in under 18,000 words for it. The deadline was March 1, and we submitted it on February 11. We got our response today… ACCEPTANCE! I don’t want to go into too much detail because we haven’t signed…
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Between getting distracted by fanfiction and various real life busy-ness, it took well over a year for us to finish our first original manuscript. I think part of that delay was due to our reluctance to move away from the fandom comfort zone; we’d been writing fanfiction for so long that we had our niche…
Ari McKay & Rachel Langella 