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Carlos Hazday
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Next chapter Tony has to deal with a couple of non-Italians. That in itself makes me nervous. Didn't Don Corleone say he was taking the family out of illegal enterprises. We all know how that turned out.
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Damn! Loud laughter led to a coughing fit here. Short story, Jeffrey, only 4 chapters and a microscopic epilogue. Although not in word count, we're at the halfway point chapter-wise. If I was ever going to use a cliffhanger, which of course I wouldn't, this would be the perfect spot.
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Remember when there were complaints about my chapters including too much? Ahh, bygone days. The Goldilocks word count's an elusive target. Let's see how next month's story fares.
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I realize I did. Goodnight, My Angel posted weekly for six months and Singer for three months twice a week. By the end of GMA I was starting to feel a little burned out. My solution was to write a bunch of short stories to give CJ a break and to explore some of the other interesting characters I've created. Chipper was the first one and Brad's coming up next month. PRIME's a short story the same as New Year's Day. Ranger's novella length, about 35k words over 13 chapters. I think I'll continue to alternate 2 shorts and 1 long the rest of the year. (I wonder what 2 short 1 long means in Morse Code LOL)
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Let me hear from you if you decide to stick around.
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I've watched too many gangster movies. Let me plug The Irishman. De Niro, Pacino, and Pesci are awesome in it.
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I LOVE the reactions my stories evoke from you!
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If 40 is the new 30, nasty must be the new nice. Santa's gonna be confused. Thanks for reading and the comment, Mike.
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Got it. Short chapters if I post weekdays, long one if on weekends! Grandpa promised to take care of the family, Dante gets the bowling alley, let's wait a week for Tony's next challenge.
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As long as I'm not told my stories make no sense and my grammar sucks, I consider it a win.
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Thanks, Will. Let's make sure readers ralize I don't object to their comments, no matter what's said. And I honestly do treat complaints about short chapters as a compliment. If someone had told me 5 years ago I would have a cadre of readers dissecting my stories and asking for more, I would have asked them to pass the doobie. It's extremely flattering.
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Chapter length's the theme of the day. Longer ones are coming.
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Your mind's in the gutter! Here, I'll scoot over so you can have a seat.
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I did mention this story's an expanded version of an old flash piece, right? We've met Tony and Dante before.
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Funny thing is those rabbit holes have been created without the aid of chemical substances. Could you imagine what I would write if I didn't so it while sober early in the day? LOL
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Mann's been hammering me on dialogue recently! He didn't edit this story, but the one he's working on has seen me revise more lines and add more speech tags than I have in a long time. I sometimes jot down things I hear people say in person or on TV. I actually have a few lines someone said to me in a bus in Albuquerque a few years ago I still haven't been able to use. The guy made a comment on my tats before lifting his shirt to show me a few he had done while in prison. The things one hears if we pay attention. LOL
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I noticed you read chapter 2, so you should have a better idea of what Don Martellini wants.
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Catch-22 - Word of the Day - Sat Feb 8, 2020
Carlos Hazday commented on Myr's blog entry in Writing World
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We're at the bargaining stage, eh? LOL Read my response to Mr. Will's comment. Can't have it both ways, there's only so much I can produce, and more importantly, there's only so much I can push editors. Those are scarce; i wouldn't mind having a couple more qualified ones to work with.
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Thanks, bud!
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When I've taken a long hiatus from posting in the past, readers have peppered me with requests for more stories. I refuse to do as other authors and either abandon stories they've begun posting before they were completed, or share chapters with long intervals between them. Whenever I publish a story, it's entirely written. I thought I'd reached a compromise by writing a few short stories and sharing shorter chapters on a more frequent basis. It seems the approach isn't satisfying either. I'm in a quandary. Frequent short chapters, or longer ones with down time between stories? To be, or not to be?
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Cliffhangers? And here I thought my work was a cliffie-free zone. Details about the offer coming up next chapter.
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If the most frequent complaint about my work continues to be length, I'll take it.
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Thanks for lumping my little story with the good ones. Word count's tricky, but I'll strive to increase it in the next story.
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Muito obrigado. I'm always open to corrections and learning. Errors are bound to happen when you have amateur authors and editors, but I'm pleased so few are usually found in my work. The English language is broad, but the average vocabulary of most of us isn't quite as varied. Using esoteric words now and then helps keep us on our toes.
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