Ambitions
Got back the writing critiques of my ghost town story this afternoon. I haven’t had a chance to go through the detailed marks, but the general consensus seems to be that everyone liked it up to the end, which they didn’t really get. There are some other things to fix, little sloppy mistakes and contradictions that I made, but I definitely need to rework the ending to make it more clear or perhaps change it to something more like the original. I’m starting to wonder if maybe the main character and setting are solid, but this particular story doesn’t work.
Writing exercise: Use as the first line: Sometimes the name they give you is all wrong.
It felt weird to use my own name there at the end, but it fit the story well. I also appear to switch tenses in that middle section. Hrm. Continue reading
