{"id":17212,"date":"2009-06-27T22:20:45","date_gmt":"2009-06-28T02:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=17212"},"modified":"2014-12-29T08:27:55","modified_gmt":"2014-12-29T13:27:55","slug":"read-tomorrows-new-story-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2009\/06\/27\/read-tomorrows-new-story-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Read tomorrow’s new story today"},"content":{"rendered":"

I woke up one week ago today and immediately started writing a new short story. Forty hours later, at 10:00 p.m. Sunday night, I had a completed first draft of 5,000 words. <\/p>\n

That’s never happened to me before. Based on my usual speed of writing, words accruing like a coral reef, a story of that length would usually take from a week to 10 days to achieve finished first draft stage. (What can I say? I’m no Jay Lake.<\/p>\n

Perhaps the reason the story poured out of me so quickly was that I’d been carrying the basic concept around for years, and my attendance at the Stokers a few weeks ago acted as a catalyst. <\/p>\n

Would you like to read it? Good!<\/p>\n

Because there it is.<\/p>\n

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Hope you enjoyed it!<\/p>\n

But seriously … that’s just my outline, scribbled down after I wrote the first scene, so it includes everything but that. When I begin the actual writing of a story, that all the outline I generally have, a word or two per scene, acting as a marker for scene structure and pacing.<\/p>\n

I gave over most of today to the editing of the story, and will do the same with tomorrow. I do believe I’ll have the tale finished by late Sunday night, another remarkable achievement based on my usual speed for further drafts, and plan on submitting it Monday.<\/p>\n

I’m tempted to let you try to figure out, as upcoming stories of mine are published, exactly which tale this outline should be attached to. But instead I think that, once it’s published, I’ll identify the story so you can come back and try to find its skeleton within the fleshed-out piece as it appears in print.<\/p>\n

And now … back to editing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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