Still Thinking of Endings

WMC: Thanks for the blog set up, etc. I hope it was done on company time.

I got distracted with revision today. I’m never really sure if revising is really procrastinating or not, but today it was procrastination because for our “thirty day residency,” I’m aiming for first drafts of new stories. I don’t know about yours but my first drafts are ugly and generally stupid. My goal is to hash out six in thirty days.

The Alcatraz story first. I do have the ending of this story very clearly in my mind (ref. Christine’s post). I think writing the ending first is personality oriented, but I often find that I have a visual image I am writing toward. The language or wording of that image, however, has to remain spontaneous, but the image remains...