Comments on: Ready, set – http://maryjunebrown.com/2007/02/26/ready-set/ more than meeting your eyes, i promise. Thu, 10 Nov 2011 16:35:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: maryjunebrown http://maryjunebrown.com/2007/02/26/ready-set/#comment-151 Thu, 01 Mar 2007 14:17:02 +0000 http://maryjunebrown.wordpress.com/2007/02/26/ready-set/#comment-151 James—nope…it’s not that i’m unwilling to share, it’s that I cannot. I’m still in the earliest stages, plotting, dreaming, thinking. You’ll just have to read my blog to find out more! : )
Yes, I know shorts are different than novels. I intend to keep at the short stories because they allow me a certain tone and voice–the novel will have a different “feel” to it…hopefully!

]]> By: James Steerforth http://maryjunebrown.com/2007/02/26/ready-set/#comment-150 Thu, 01 Mar 2007 10:23:31 +0000 http://maryjunebrown.wordpress.com/2007/02/26/ready-set/#comment-150 Care to tell us about your novel plans?

There definitely is a difference in scope between short stories and novels. Case in point: Jhumpa Lahiri. Her stories in “Interpreter of Maladies” are great, her first novel “The Namesake” is a short-story idea she blew up into a novel – with the result that it is an overblown short story :)

]]> By: Kaitlyn http://maryjunebrown.com/2007/02/26/ready-set/#comment-138 Tue, 27 Feb 2007 06:34:52 +0000 http://maryjunebrown.wordpress.com/2007/02/26/ready-set/#comment-138 Mary,
Hooray! The combination of writing a novel and continuing to write and send out stories is a good one. There’s a real richness to working a longer piece, on a big idea. At the same time, the stories can sustain your publishing and act as a relief from the novel when you need it. You’re on your way!

K

]]> By: augustrose http://maryjunebrown.com/2007/02/26/ready-set/#comment-137 Tue, 27 Feb 2007 05:02:17 +0000 http://maryjunebrown.wordpress.com/2007/02/26/ready-set/#comment-137 Go get ‘em. I’m trying to work up the courage (and figure out how) to send off a POD project I did to potential publishers. I’m tired of people looking at me with a sorry-you-couldn’t-get-anyone-to-publish-it look on their face. Whatever.

“And they’re off . . . ” Oh, that’s horse racing. Sorry. :)

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