I find myself writing...

BeeFic.

Yes. The "honeycomb" prompt for the Utah Arts Festival IronPen competition has prompted me to write a story about a pitched battle between bees...and faeries. Because I'm a genre writer, dammit.

And this is an interesting writing exercise for me, because somehow I think that the only bee in a colony with an "I" mentality is possibly the Queen. All the rest of them, at least in my little universe here, are "we."

Now, there are subsets of "we." There are the foragers, and the builders, and the larvae tenders.

However, this is making it hard to personalize this battle. I feel like I've got the bare bones of a story here (which isn't complete, but I know how it ends, and that's half the battle), and it needs to have organs and muscles and nerves and things added before it's a full, actual story.

And now I'm wondering if it wouldn't be better to tell it from the faeries' viewpoint. Hm. Will need to ponder that.

I find myself writing...

BeeFic.

Yes. The "honeycomb" prompt for the Utah Arts Festival IronPen competition has prompted me to write a story about a pitched battle between bees...and faeries. Because I'm a genre writer, dammit.

And this is an interesting writing exercise for me, because somehow I think that the only bee in a colony with an "I" mentality is possibly the Queen. All the rest of them, at least in my little universe here, are "we."

Now, there are subsets of "we." There are the foragers, and the builders, and the larvae tenders.

However, this is making it hard to personalize this battle. I feel like I've got the bare bones of a story here (which isn't complete, but I know how it ends, and that's half the battle), and it needs to have organs and muscles and nerves and things added before it's a full, actual story.

And now I'm wondering if it wouldn't be better to tell it from the faeries' viewpoint. Hm. Will need to ponder that.

And the BeeFic

...has an END at the bottom of it.

Am I happy with it?

No. Of course not. How could I be? There's no point to the frelling thing. Bees and faerie fight, lots of them die, the end.

Bah. And it's only 424 words, too. Which, go, me, writing original flashfic, but...

It's missing something. Probably a lot of something. There's no larger...thing. *sigh* I'm a writer and supposed to be all articulate and stuff. YoSaffBridge I'm not.

ALSO. NOTE TO SELF:

When e-subbing a story to a major market, it might help to actually, you know, attach the thing to the email.

And the BeeFic

...has an END at the bottom of it.

Am I happy with it?

No. Of course not. How could I be? There's no point to the frelling thing. Bees and faerie fight, lots of them die, the end.

Bah. And it's only 424 words, too. Which, go, me, writing original flashfic, but...

It's missing something. Probably a lot of something. There's no larger...thing. *sigh* I'm a writer and supposed to be all articulate and stuff. YoSaffBridge I'm not.

ALSO. NOTE TO SELF:

When e-subbing a story to a major market, it might help to actually, you know, attach the thing to the email.