Original Fic

[gategrrl]

There's this short SF story that I thought up years ago - about 8-10 years ago, I think? I reread it a few months ago, the part I'd finished, and gee, it had held up. Needed a little rewriting, sure, but not much. But the reason it was unfinished was I was stonewalled with the society I'd created. There was something illogical in it that wasn't working. So I downloaded what I'd written into my PDA with the intention of finishing it at last, printing it out, and submitting it to www.crittercrit.org or an actual magazine.

A day or so ago, this story came forward in my mind, with my mind still working on that damned problem I'd run up against. And I think I figured out one of the why's to it, the thing that was stonewalling me. There was no reason for a longevity treatment to be given to women in exchange for their egg-cells - until I realized, geez: what if it was a longevity treatment that *regenerated* those cells, which were removed every few years (say twenty years, for argument's sake). And that simple realization just broke me through.

Now I have to go back and reread and get back in the mileau I'd created, and the characters. Who knows, it might turn into a novella. It's possible.

Comments

[gategrrl.livejournal.com]

Thank you. Hopefully I'll be able to finish this. I hate when I have an unfinished story.