by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
So, I saw on Twitter where Gawker is accepting fiction of up to 5,000 words. I would be a such a thrill to get the validation associated with getting a short story published on Gawker.
And, yet.
It’s something of a cliché within my own mind is haters who say, “Why don’t you just write a short story” when they grow frustrated with how long I’ve been talking about writing a novel (or, now, novels) without anything to show for it.
First — those people can fuck off.
Second, however, it would be fun to have a diversion that required a tight in and out of storytelling. I have a number of ideas in my mind that could be turned into a screenplay that I could instead convert into a short story.
On one hand, the validation of getting anything published would be great but it would be far overshadowed by the thing on the other hand: my almost inevitable rejection.
So, I dunno.
