For The Love of Lilly

Well, it's done. The big 14,000 word monster that's been giving me a constant migraine for a week. Trouble is, I don't know if it's good enough.

Good enough for what, you ask?

Well, I want to be published. Specifically in Orson Scott Card's IGMS...(oscigms.com) - since I have sort of an in there, and it's a good place to start out as a new writer.

Actually, strike what I said earlier. I think it's good enough, but I don't know if it's short enough.

It's called "For The Love of Lilly."

Think about this - when I print it out tomorrow, double-spaced and all that, it'll come in at a hefty fifty pages. Maybe that's too much...but I have read plenty of stories that seemed that long - most in "Best Of" collections. Also, it seems the average over at IGMS is 10,000 words...based on the one story I looked at. No, don't worry - I'm off to do more research on it at the moment.

And by the way: In searching for something that would help me format the thing, I ran into a distinction that makes me uneasy. "Up to 7,500 words is a short story. Up to 17,000 words is a novelette."

Dear God, I've created a monster...novelette.