You may have gathered from my previous post that I've been editing some short stories. I've written a handful of them over the past few years, and I haven't looked at them since. This has caused me some confusion, because I forgotten things I was in the middle of. I've edited four of them so far. I still have four left. Crud, I thought I'd finished more than that.
And I have one more short story I haven't started. Another sequel.
Except for one, all of the shorts are about characters or events that appear in other stories. Someone told me to submit a short story to a magazine. I'm not sure how well they'd stand on their own. I feel like they have more meaning when they're part of a whole. (Maybe that's an excuse for not trying to make them stand on their own?)
I wanted to show a story to someone, so I went back and filled out a few things that otherwise only make sense if you read the first story. I still wrote a page explaining the events that lead up to the story. I hope I didn't scare them off from reading it...
I couldn't work every detail into the sequel short story without making it clunky. I suppose I could have left it purposefully vague...
I don't know what to do. Try to explain what it's a sequel to, or let them figure it out on their own. TT^TT
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