Blurred Line

I'm back from my vacation - had a lot of fun. Somehow, my girlfriend and I landed in the suite with the jacuzzi while everyone else had regular bathrooms. The jets worked out all the kinks in my back, so now I'll be able to hunch in front of the computer indefinitely, pounding out story after story.

Anyhow, I came back to find a bunch of critique s for "Learning Magic From Mint", which I'd put up on OWW before leaving. Generally, there seems to be something of a split. One half like what they're seeing, the other half can't get into it because of the technological choices I've made. Basically, the problem lies in my writing a story about a child android (who's a child both in mind and body). I figured, hey, they did it in A.I. Anyhow, I'm getting a lot of comments about the androids not acting enough like androids and all that jazz.

It's times like these that I wonder if I'll ever have what it takes to be a science fiction writer. This story, like most of what I write, is meant as more of a sociological statement than any real exploratory speculative work. I think my tendency towards that end of the spectrum might have me ending up as an outsider looking in.

However, I've decided to keep the story as is, because the only solutions are putting in all the background, which would make for a story that's half-plot, half-infodump, and I'm not too interested in that. The other option is to extend the length of the work so that the infodump isn't so noticeable, but the plot on this one isn't exactly the meatiest.

In the meantime, I have a few other ideas bouncing around, but nothing that's ready to see the light of day quite yet.


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