Comments on: Short Story Friday: interlude — what’s cooking?

By: Luisa Perkins

Luisa Perkins — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 20:42:07 +0000

Thread hijack, since I can’t remember where the original request was: Wm, I have some LDS historical romances and a mystery/suspense title or two that I could lend you.

By: Th.

Th. — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 16:05:50 +0000

If Chris stops by (for the first time in a . . . year?) I’m curious to know how many stories constitutes a ‘trend’. Are three striking stories a trend? A third of all submissions?

By: Wm Morris

Wm Morris — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 14:23:57 +0000

6100 words now on the story mentioned above. One more section and then it’s time for my favorite part: revision.

By: Th.

Th. — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 05:23:53 +0000

Eugene wrote such a book also.

By: MoJo

MoJo — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 03:58:15 +0000

Well, the core of the plot for book #3 revolves around a hostile takeover/clandestine restructuring. (Forgive me. I couldn't resist.)

By: Th.

Th. — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 03:43:58 +0000

This is true. Not mine. I know nothing about money. You can ask my wife.

By: Wm Morris

Wm Morris — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 03:17:49 +0000

I hate to break it to you guys, but after reading Dreiser’s The Financier, I’m convinced that the great Mormon novel will be about money rather than sex*. ;-P

* Although I’ve heard that MoJo’s work is usually about both.

By: MoJo

MoJo — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 03:12:34 +0000

You know, I think I might have something without–

Oh, never mind. I don’t.

By: Th.

Th. — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 02:54:08 +0000

(as long as i am talking to an empty room, i shall continue)

Angela—

If you stop by, in relation to the many related conversations going on of late, I’m curious, if many stories submitted to Irreantum are about sex, what sort of editorial standards might limit something’s chances of publication.

By: Th.

Th. — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 22:47:09 +0000

I laugh at the sex. Because I didn’t submit my story rife with Mormon/atheist sex. Couldn’t get it finished on time. Next year!

(Although I’m in the process of adding sex to my novella. “What if our bodies stained as easily as my favorite cotton tshirt? ‘Can I suck that out for you?’”)