I'm so excited right now! I just finished the first draft of a short story that has taken me a week and a half to write. It should only be three or four more weeks of revisions before I can pleased with it. But what I have right now is full of promise.
I've decided to move into more of an experimental genre of literary writing. Mostly this means that I'm breaking rules for a specific effect, and the normal chronological narrative doesn't hold true. And man does it not hold true! It's a second person point-of-view story in a chronology that Quentin Tarantino would be proud of. It's my first completed story in the second person (which means that the central character is referred to as You). Most stories/novels are 1st person (I, me) or 3rd person (he/she, him/her). 2nd person was a new challenge because it requires the author to force the reader into a situation, but readers might jump out of the narrative when they see the "you" which could confuse them. You have to keep the reader in the story, as that central character. I chose it for that reason: I wanted to force my reader in the story and not let them come out. 2nd person was the only way to do this.
Like always, I'll let the story sit anywhere from a few days to a week before I reread it. I have ideas in my head, but it's always good to let a story sit. That way, I read it more as a reader and less like the person who wrote it. I'll be able to see what stands out, what works, and what just seems awkward.
Did I mention I'm really excited?
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