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Manuscript Reading for MZB's Sword & Sorceress
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Sword & Sorceress 21
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Stories should be the type generally referred to as “sword and sorcery” and must have a strong female protagonist. See Sword & Sorceress 1-19 for examples. We do not want stories set in modern times, or stories with explicit sex, gratuitous violence, or profanity.
Deadline: November 30, 2002.
Length: up to 9,000 words.
Submission method: save document as .rtf file (rich text format or interchange format, depending on your computer) and e-mail as attachment to mzbworks@att.net.
Rights purchased: first rights.
Payment: 2-6 cents per word, plus pro rata share of royalties and foreign sales.
Anyone interested? Brad? Up to the challenge? Fiona... Maybe you have another story up your sleeve somewhere?
#2 - 22nd Oct 2002 20:02:00
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Does this happen to other people when they write? It takes a certain set or series of events/moments to inspire a story. Each event/moment individually is nothing, but when they're viewed together, the story appears? This happens to me frequently for short story ideas. Is this what's referred to as synchronicity?
This post was the last event of such a series that brought the whole together for me. In Reno, stuck walking through the casino area to get to the restaurant (I apologize to any who like gambling and casinos, but they are too loud, too bright, and too full of smokers for me. I'm an outdoor girl.). So first there was the confined maze-like atmosphere. Then, in strange hotel rooms, where I never can get the temperature comfortable - I had strange dreams - VERY strange dreams. One was about these statues on a hill and the heads flying off two of them and something being released from within. This dream had an early section with Conan the Barbarian running around, and so when I read this post, "Sword and Sorceress" led me to Conan, which led me to the rest of the dream, which combined with the "get-me-out-of-here-NOW" feeling of Reno to crystalize into a new short story.
Any one of three pieces would not have resulted in anything - but together, they work. I don't know why it always strikes me as so odd when the disparate ideas come together like that, but it is just so weird. (Not that I'm complaining, mind you. It's extremely exciting when the lightbulb goes off and everything comes together, it's just weird.)
Does this happen to anybody else?
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