#scene-structure

Wrote Another Piece, But…

It’s funny. When I get an idea, I often don’t have the sense of how big it should be. I’ll bang at it for a while, and then I’ll get some sense. I can either trim off some threads and make it shorter, or I can keep going longer.

One piece I wrote for a market with a 500-word limit. I believe it clocked in at 497. I took too long fussing with it, and this market was “open until filled,” and I just…