Nov
17th
2016
Helium Squirted · 11:35pm Nov 17th, 2016
Then Goes the Neighborhood has gone off to the editors. In the meantime, I found something on my Google Drive. It's inspired by Estee's The Elements of Elements collection. I think you can guess which periodic element it's using as its prompt. The thing is, it's... kind of dumb.
Like, really dumb. One-gag story dumb.
Also, it's barely over a thousand words.
So, without knowing anything else about it, do you think I should just shove this in Dueling Keyboards or publish it on its own?
Sounds like it's light enough to fly on its own.
Yes sure do the thing yes.
YES
Sounds like it's so dumb that it would just be too embarrassing to publish at all.
Publish it by itself.
Dumb is subjective. Knowing your work, it probably has enough to stand on its own.
One of those. As long as I get to read it.
At first I thought I'd ask where it lands on your scale of relative dumbness, but honestly, I can't really speak for that. I am the author of one of the admittedly (and purposefully) crappiest Displaced stories I know of, and the idea came to me out of a mix of flustered annoyance mixed with a quote from The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, and devolved from there over the course of an hour or so.
And then I published it. You even liked it. I sincerely doubt that anything you could come up with could be any dumber, and therefore fully recommend publishing it directly. If you prove me wrong, you will only have won more of my respect.
Publish it on its own. That way there will be two of us demanding that Estee notice our fics.
If you are asking whether you should do one of those things, the answer is, "Yes".
If you are asking which of those things you should do, the answer is, "Hell if I know, but do one of them".
4306763 I can't decide which way to thumb this
Post it on its lonesome. Awful things are splendid when given it's own curated location.