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1.30.2011
January Brings Few Faces was INTENDED to be a short story.

Like, short-short. Ish. Right now the current length is 27 pages . . . and it's not even half-finished.

Gah.

I expanded Lissy's family's plot more than I expected to. And then I went and added a character from ANOTHER story I wrote . . . but she's not major, just there for flavor and maybe some kicks. The ORIGINAL story (which would have made it much, much shorter) isn't going to appear until more toward the mid-end of the story. Lissy's dad wasn't even around in the original, so she wasn't living with him. She lived with Joy up until [spoilers]. I think. I almost finished the original, but I never quite did. This is the rewrite. Which is probably four times as long and, oddly enough, something I'm actually going to finish.

It's based on a dream I had back in August. The story takes place in January, of course, and it was really nice to have a winter dream during the hottest days of the year. And I remember I woke up feeling good after that dream.



3 Comments:

That's cool to use dreams as a premise. I like connecting stories..vaguely like that with characters. Sometimes, I wished it was used more in anthologies I read. There was an Alice Hoffman book where she uses one house for all the stories. I liked that idea.

By Blogger ellie, at 1/30/2011 11:12:00 AM  

wow..that's a lot. It'll be novel before you know it.

By Blogger Unknown, at 1/31/2011 12:40:00 PM  

I'm glad it's longer, I like reading it. :3

By Blogger L, at 4/09/2011 03:14:00 PM  

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