Did you hear the story about the Swedish couple who fancied a road trip to the Isle of Capri but set their sat nav co-ordinates wrong and ended up in Carpi, an industrial town in Italy some 400 miles off destination?
Maybe the analogy is stretching it somewhat, but as with that couple, I was so keen to get a recently written short story to its destination asap I made mistakes. I grant you, unlike Capri, Norah McGrath's desk at Take A Break is hardly a place of natural beauty and busy glitz (well, it might be, who knows?) but had I let my manuscript get to her in its present form I'd have regretted it.
Why? Because it wasn't right - it needed 'something'. The resolution came too easily, for one thing, I could see that immediately on re-read. The plot was a good one and hopefully it's as original as it can be considering every idea seems to have been done to death, but just by letting it drop out of my thoughts and coming to it fresh a day later, I could see how I could make it better. Hopefully, that's what I've done and it's now on its way to Norah who still may reject it for any number of reasons but hopefully not because it's poorly written.
I'll let you know in about 3 month's time!
PS. I make no excuses for my blog posts being poorly written but I'm not getting paid for them, so I don't care.
PPS.I've never seen a photo of Norah. Seen pics of most eds but never one of her.
2 comments:
What a daft pair! I wonder at what point they realised their mistake?!
Good luck with the story, Sue.
And your blog posts are not poorly written! (But isn't it nice to write something and Not Care! Tee hee!)
I tend to forget to spell check on this blog! You're right, nice not to bother!
I want to know why that couple didn't think it odd they hadn't had to cross water...I mean didn't the 'Isle' in the name give them a clue?
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