Idea Resurrection & the Lunchtime Book

[merriehaskell]

I find it fascinating that the ideas I had as a teen for novels that I dismissed a decade later for being too silly are things I'm re-considering 20 years later

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[maeve_the_red]

I am filled with admiration (and guilt, obviously) to hear that you're combining your day-job with not one but *two* books a year.

Just for the record, those short stories of yours I've read have been pretty damn good.

[merriehaskell]

Not that I in any way want to intimate that writing for children is easier than writing for adults, but the books *are* shorter. :)

And thanks for the short story love. :) My self-criticism isn't so much a knock against my own quality--I'll leave that determination for the readers and editors--but I just don't feel the short stories the same way. I've always felt a bit more fraudulent in writing them. Like, "DON'T LOOK AT THE GIRL BEHIND THE CURTAIN."

It might take a thesis to explore why, though.

[maeve_the_red]

I know what you mean about writing novels damaging your ability to write short stories. It's definitely an either/or thing for me.