Lies!
My dinner-party story has been put on the back burner. I still plan on writing it, it’s just that it was getting very weird: Rob Roy showed up. Then Bono. And I don’t want to subject anyone to anything resembling the middle act of Across the Universe.
But all is not lost: I’m now over 2000 words into my new alien invasion story. To me, alien invasion can be totally cool or incredibly cliché, and I look at getting this piece into the former category as the challenge. Here’s a tiny excerpt:
The klaxon at the end of the street released one last curdling scream before breaking down into unending feedback. Walter was alone, then. The dead eyes of his wife and the thing inside her casting judgment upon him in the dark.
Also, this morning I sent out my Niagara Falls story “Horseshoe” to a good market, so we’ll see what happens.
June 27th, 2008 at 5:54 pm
Yes, I think we’ve had enough Across the Universe experience for one lifetime. Try again the next time ’round. :)
Glad to hear the writing experiment is progressing nicely!