Random Saturday Things
Yesterday my partner read Eight Minutes of Usable Daylight and picked up a bunch of mistakes i’d missed, plus added a few notes about a point where the story offended her knowledge of science. This proved to be fortuitous, as fixing the problem gave me a new line of dialogue with a little more metaphorical punch than the original. # Over on RPG.net, Capellan noted that the ending of Winged, with Sharp Teeth worked better the more he processed it, which is one of those reviews that makes me exceptionally happy. The “Lab” part of of the Short Fiction Lab isn’t just a nifty marketing gimmick–these stories are often places where I’m attempting to achieve certain things, and this time around I was deliberately experimenting with what Nick Mamamatas has referred to “leaving the ragged edge at the end” in his essay How To End A Story (via his criminally underrated writing book, Starve Better). Mamamatas argues against the neat ending, suggesting its
