Finished a short story tonight

[naomikritzer]

There's this short story I've been working on off and on all fall. I turned in my novel and started working on it. Then Ed's mother had a health crisis and he had to go to Boston. I did no writing while he was gone. He came home, and I started working on it again. Then I got revisions back from my editor, and also Ed had to go back to Boston. I spent a while working on revisions, turned them in, looked at the short story and couldn't pick up the thread where I'd left it off.

I finally finished a draft yesterday, then revised on hard copy tonight and e-mailed it out to my critique group. I feel so accomplished.

The story involves a character who dies from a brain tumor. If anyone knows something about brain tumors AND is willing to read a depressing story where this issue features prominently, let me know, because I would like my medical details vetted. (The viewpoint character is a layperson and glosses over a lot of the details, but there's still plenty of stuff I could have gotten wrong.)

Comments

[magentamn.livejournal.com]

I don't want to read it because I don't usually like depressing stories, but you might ask Lisa Freitag, since she is a doctor.

[porphyrin.livejournal.com]

If you want, I can read it.

(It may take me a few weeks.)

[naomikritzer]

Still up for this? I revised tonight and was thinking, "I reeeeeeally need to actually follow up and find someone to vet this for me..." The medical detail is vague but still specific enough to be wrong. It's a 5,600 word story.

[(Anonymous)]

My Uncle died of metastatic melanoma to the brain about two years ago. I work in the Neurosurgery Department where he received a portion of his treatment. My e-mail address is byrnesa@stanford.edu