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Very intentionally:
For #FridayBlack, the first story for me was the one I wanted most read. It had come out online a year before behind a semi paywall thing and I was REALLY sad about that limitation. Writing ithelped my figure out my writerly purpose... https://twitter.com/kendraffe/status/1198292075491594241
For #FridayBlack, the first story for me was the one I wanted most read. It had come out online a year before behind a semi paywall thing and I was REALLY sad about that limitation. Writing ithelped my figure out my writerly purpose... https://twitter.com/kendraffe/status/1198292075491594241
+ wanted F5 to be the first story cause I figured if they read that story and nothing else ever then at least I did the work I was meant to do. Also ironically, even though it was a story I wanted out in the world even if my name wasn't attached it was the most "me" story I felt.
Next I wanted an ernest, no bs, I love you for my mom. So Things My Mother Said is *through great work and effort* presented "unardorned" with some of the obvious observable story elements some of my other stories have ( essential not realist conceit/ diff lang / etc.)
TMMS ends (I hope you can be proud of me) the next story starts "Suck One and Die" so that was funny yo me.
*** I use note cards wit ly story title and the first and last line of each to get more intentional about that kind of thing. Got idea from @marykarrlit .
*** I use note cards wit ly story title and the first and last line of each to get more intentional about that kind of thing. Got idea from @marykarrlit .
But the third story "The Era" is right back into heavily surreal/ sci-fi which, again, is a distinction I do not consider while writing though I am aware and very happy with it fitting in. I put it third cause it felt very me, and also it made me laugh and that's key for me.
The 4th story Lark Street I wanted in the first half of the book. I worked hard on it and had many readers help me craft it into something that deserved to be in the book. For me it was important to engage with taboo... and hope that people would feel not only I was pro-choice...
But also that there is a kind of violence in the taboo of abortion which should be normalized. That said, through workshop and the eyes of different woman the revision process created a story that itself...
Was sort of about how a male protagonist was centering himself when he really shouldn't have been. The story became for me about the inadequacies of it's former forms through revision. I really wanted for by the first 3-4 stories for you to know what I was about...
Even if what the reader discovered was by that anything could happen.
I have intentional thoughts about the rest of the remaining 8 stories and their placement but this is a lot of typing so yeah. That's some of it.
I have intentional thoughts about the rest of the remaining 8 stories and their placement but this is a lot of typing so yeah. That's some of it.
