[Writingworkshop] Surviving

Antony Nigel Donovan and at MIT.EDU
Fri May 8 08:58:56 EDT 2009


And, not unlike a fungus, he's beginning to grow on me.

He's less annoying in this piece and more pitifully pathetic.  If you
keep going with this I think he might become an intriguing character.
Although, I'm not sure people would read past the annoying parts, so
there's a risk.

But, maybe they won't have to.  If later stories stand on their own.

Line edits:  2.6, You voice => Your voice; 4.1, the don't talk about
that => they don't talk about that.

Thanks for keeping at this.  It's inspiring, even if the inspiration
hasn't transmogrified into actual prose on the page.

Antony

On Thu, 2009-05-07 at 22:25 +1000, Neale Morison wrote:
> David Manning was so annoying I thought he needed another outing.
> 
> http://www.nealemorison.com/writing/shortstories/Surviving.pdf
> 




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