Forty-nine Shades of Taupe

If you’re not in the know, I’ve been tinkering with writing a little story…

I’m not gonna tell you what, exactly, I’m trying to write–though the title of this post should give you an idea. (…and, no, that’s not the title–heck, my working title for it is Untitled #1; and, sorry to disappoint a few, it isn’t a BDSM fantasy, either…)

So far, I’ve written the tale in fragmented pieces; an odd way of going about it–a method that would undoubtedly make many of my former English/Literature teachers cringe. I’m hoping that I’ll soon be able to stitch the thing together; but until I fully develop my characters and the plot, it will have to remain a disjointed mess. Fortunately, I do have the main idea, most of the conflict and a general idea of the resolution in mind.

Currently, the total word count of my separate pieces places the work in the novelette category, with 15,027 words; just a few thousand more, and I’ll be entering novella country! I’m hoping that I can get the thing knocking on the novel-length door… (well, at least NaNoWriMo novel length–I know others think novel status comes at twice that length!)

…in other-somewhat-related-news…

I stumbled across a hilariously scathing review of Fifty on Goodreads, and am now going through the reviewer’s history to get ideas of what she–and others–may think of what I’m writing. While that reviewer is not going to be my target audience, I want to–at the very least–be able to get someone like her to read the entire thing through. (I don’t necessarily want to try and please everyone–I know I won’t; I’d like to give just enough to make someone want to hold their commitment to reading it–even if it turns out to be the worst piece of literary tripe imaginable.)

I’ll also be looking into what books worked for that reviewer–and for reviewers that gave similar marks…

…this should be a fun little journey…