..but I finished the short story on Thursday, the one I was trying to get done for last Monday. It’s a fantasy, with a first-person female narrator, and I have to say, it surprised me along the way with its developments, and I like the way it turned out.
The delay was due partly to the excuses I kept making to procrastinate, and partly to the fact that I was underestimating the final word-count of story. I thought it might have 4000-4500 words, but it actually took 6000 to tell the story right. In fact, there were 6100-and-something at the end, and I went through the story and eliminated over 100 words - mainly because the market I had in mind has an upper limit of 6000 words, but truthfully, the story did benefit from being trimmed a little.
Oh, and this one was carefully proof-read. And submitted to a fairly good market, so the odds against it being accepted are long.
