Premature Publication
By ice rivers
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As prolific as I am, I often sacrifice quality for excitement and expediency.
Here's what I'm talking about.
I have fifteen minutes to create this piece from beginning to end. When I'm done, I'm done. I don't want it to be too long because I realize how few readers are willing to venture past 500 words so this one will be within or around that homely range.
Many of my "pieces" go way beyond 500 words but I tend to write them in segments rather than as finished products. I get 500 words in and determine to hit save and continue with another 500 or a thousand tomorrow and keep coming back until the whole 5000 words is down on paper well polished, spell checked, punctuated etc but here's where I run into a problem. I'm so excited by the fragment that I have captured that Ij ust can't resist publishing it as soon as I finish the fragment of what is obviously just a part of a much bigger whole.
I come over here to publish. It's never polished as thouroughly as it could/should be. Because the story is much longer than the sample published I usually end it with these words
STAY TUNED
which means of course that I hope you come back when I revisit the piece and add to the confusion and misunderdstanding even as the bloom falls off the rose and leaves the reader unsatisfied or merely titillated.
Not this one though.
This is a fifteen minute wham bam job job which is gonna take less than five minutes to read yet will satisfy in a way that less spontaneous invention seems incapable.
At least to me
This is the old, unexpected in and out.
Ready
On ten
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,......
ten.
yeah baby,
Meanwhile I'm working on that longer story which once again begins in San Francisco.
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