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dancingsinging) wrote2012-03-21 05:41 pm
dancingsinging) wrote2012-03-21 05:41 pm
Some trite whining
I was going to write this involved post about the interview on the Diane Ream show with the guy who made the film _Bully_, and about how could Diane Ream of all people not figure out that asking someone "why were you targeted for bullying?" is victim blaming? Especially when her guest objected to the question. But I didn't manage to write that thoughtful and outraged post.
What did get my off my ass to post was this. I'm sitting down to read & critique the other entries for an upcoming writers' workshop. My story is about 3,000 words. But /two/ of the three pieces I'm critiquing are almost 10,000-word novel excerpts! One of them is over four chapters long. Since I'm probably not going to say it to the workshop participant, I'm going to say it here--just because there's a word-count max of 10k words, doesn't mean you have to send as many chapters as you can squeeze into the limit. Jeez! Just submit one chapter and a nice synopsis already!
What did get my off my ass to post was this. I'm sitting down to read & critique the other entries for an upcoming writers' workshop. My story is about 3,000 words. But /two/ of the three pieces I'm critiquing are almost 10,000-word novel excerpts! One of them is over four chapters long. Since I'm probably not going to say it to the workshop participant, I'm going to say it here--just because there's a word-count max of 10k words, doesn't mean you have to send as many chapters as you can squeeze into the limit. Jeez! Just submit one chapter and a nice synopsis already!