Friday, August 12, 2005

Leviathan Isles

So the thing is, I'm in the middle of editing slash re-writing a short story. The plan is to polish it up and submit to Asimov's or F&SF for publication, or, statistically more likely, rejection. But that's OK. I can handle it. Sniff.
The story is "The Leviathan Isles" and concerns a harrowing rite-of-passage adventure of a girl living on a fairly low tech human colonizied planet in the far future. The two primary re-writes I need to accomplish are 1) make the antagonist character Chendry more menacing and intelligent, and 2) add two final scenes with our heroine Jenna and her grandfather, which will kind of sum up our experience with her in this particular story, and leave the door open for more adventures. Piece of cake. I'll work on the re-writes on this site, and document the story submittal process, along with whatever other details come up. The beauty of this is, I can write about the re-write process, and not have to do any actual story writing, which happens to be hard work.

2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

So when are you giving your fans a preview of the story?
Is your story Varley-esque, with a female protognist?
I wish you the greatest luck in getting it published and cannot wait to get to read it.

10:20 PM  
Blogger Mike King said...

I hope to have a "before and after" editing version up maybe next week. I wouldn't presume to call it Varley-esque; it's more just plain old not-to-boring Mike King stuff. If nothing else, it's fun to make stuff up, and to try to create a half way decent story. mk

4:51 PM  

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