About Me
Display Name | Frances K R |
Twitter Handle | @aphotic_ink |
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What's New
My Progress | 27 July – a quick note that the final update will be tomorrow. š 20 July –Ā 1991 words!Ā This isĀ reallyencouraging, especially given everything else that seems determined to happen this week. Thank each and every one of you so very much for contributing, or for reading this. My work on story revision is going slowly, simply because there is justĀ a lotto revise, but I think I should be on track to have it done at the end of next week. 13 July –Ā 1232 wordsĀ done this week. Nearly done one complete plotline for my current project! Also, a shout-out toĀ Asha BardonĀ andĀ Shannon Fay, who helped me figure out something pretty critical about a story Iāve been struggling with. Wanted to write a more in-depth post about expectations and story formats, but this week has been mad busy. Will try and get to it later, but in the meantime, wanted to thank them before even more time slipped away. 6 July –Ā 1077 words this week!Ā Itās still morning, but Iām planning on outlining this evening if I get time, and Iām not going to count an outline towards my wordcount. If I do get any prose done, Iāll just roll it forward into next week. I also completed myĀ second story revision, so thatās two out of three done, which does give me a little breathing room. Iāve got three weeks to revise the last one, so I may try working on the novelette that I handwrote a draft of in May. (I increased the wordcount in the story by 192, but I figure Iāll just keep revision wordcount changes separate from everything else.) In other news, the last weekās heat wave is finally breaking. I look forward to going outside and breathing without feeling like Iām trying to iron a soaking wet T-shirt. 29 June –Ā 1023 words this week!Ā It’s not as much as I’d like, but I decided to not count any of my outlining towards this week’s total, so at least it’s not all I’ve done. Also, last week I revised a story, so that’s one of the three done. I’m slightly worried that I’m coming down with a light summer cold, so my plan for the long weekend is to largely stay inside, avoid the rather intense stew of humidity and pollen that is descending on us, and make progress on a rewrite. Hopefully what I’m feeling is just a very prolonged allergy attack and a couple of days to recover will have it tapering off. 23 June – 1238 words this week!Ā Not a complete draft, sadly – there’s the short piece I was working on earlier, and the rest of the words went on a different piece that’s been around for a while. But I have a couple of draft zeros now; those things that are still at the level of having [[TRANSITION SCENE GOES HERE]] and [[CHECK SETTING FOR DESCRIPTION]] peppered in a few times, but are otherwise pretty solid. I’m going to try and spend most of tomorrow working on revisions so that I can have one of the three stories I’m meaning to revise done for next week. 20 June –Ā 686 words so far!Ā Iām writing a very short piece, and I will actually need to edit it down to 500 words, but thatās going to happen after I get a few more details on the setting; Iāll write it all up and then edit it all down. |
What I Write
Writing Sample | I was halfway through the Friday eleven to seven shift, which is the loneliest of the lot, when the time machine lit up and spat Mo out. She looked like she was on fire. Not like sheād been set on fire; she looked like fire was running over her skin like spilled beer running across a table, foaming and spreading. Tachyon breakdown, the decay of shifted time. Iāve seen people come through before, but only on tape. And Jesus, never anyone I knewā And because it was Mo, I killed the alarm. ā āPlaying Prometheusā, Persistent Visions Magazine, 18 November 2016 |
What I Write | Secondary-world fantasy, polite horror, and somewhat emotional science fiction. The lines seem to blur a bit. Currently working on several short stories and editing a post-apocalyptic novel. |
Publications | āLate Night at the Low Road Dinerā, forthcoming inĀ Liminal StoriesĀ in August 2018. āThou Unnecessary Letterā, published in the No Shit, There I Was⦠anthology. February 2017. āPlaying Prometheusā, published in Persistent Visions. 18 November 2016. āThe Gannet Girlā, published in issue 102 of On Spec magazine. May 2016. āAbishag Maryā, published in The Weird Wild West anthology. December 2015. (Story link is to an excerpt.) āFive Drinks in Siltownā, published in issue 8 of Betwixt Magazine. July 2015. āPalimpsestā, published in issue 2 of The Sockdolager. June 2015. |
My Write-a-thon Goals
Writing Goals | 6,000 new words written, and 3 short stories revised. |
Fundraising Goals | I deeply admire Clarion West; while I’m not sure if I’ll ever be able to attend the six-week workshop, I admire the work they do (both the six-week and the one-day workshops, not to mention the scholarships) and I’d love to support it. |