Counsel of friends....

[j_cheney]

After some consideration, I am trunking "The Family Business".

Yes, I sold it to the first venue it went to...which then subsequently evaporated....sublimated...whatever they do. However, I'd have to agree with displaced_texan that it really just isn't my style. So it goes into the trunk after one submission! ::slams lid and sits on trunk::

I did think about removing one of the two other trunk stories, "Ghost." (The one that an admired gentleman in Kansas said was 'publishable as is', but the four editors I sent it to didn't think so.) I'm going to keep it in there for now, because like TFB, I just don't think it's me either.

On a sunny note: We are going to go to the gym today...the first time out of the house since Friday morning's post. I just hope we can get the car back into the garage! (Steep driveway)

Comments

[mallory-blog.livejournal.com]

I'm really curious about this...

If you wrote it, doesn't that by default make it your style? Maybe it isn't a tone or voice you use too often but it is inside of you.

I often think about this particular issue because 'some' of my writing is so stylistically mine that it is easy to identify - while other writing shocks people when they find out its mine. At one point I tried (failed) to corral my style along the lines of what I thought was what I wanted to write like.

Should our style orphans remain orphans?

[j-cheney.livejournal.com]

I just don't know...perhaps when we're famous, someone will want them, but when I have so little out there, I'm not certain that this is a piece that I want people to think is representative of my work....that's the logic, at least.

I told my husband I would only send it to smaller venues, and he said...then why send it out at all?

It's a big trunk. with plenty of room. They're OK in there for now. I haven't forgotten them, I just don't want to bother to re-write them.

[mallory-blog.livejournal.com]

I do understand trunking stuff - even though I have very very little in my trunk. I made more of the reverse decision to throw everything at the wall and to try to keep my judgmental inner self (inner critic) quiet. I also am of the belief that everything will sell if sent out enough, unless it is real cow fodder - then it will sell immediately.

[j-cheney.livejournal.com]

Yes, but I want to stay on my first reader's good side....

[mallory-blog.livejournal.com]

:)