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    Reflections on Tinsori Light
    Reflections on Tinsori Light
    Reflections on Tinsori Light
    Ebook46 pages32 minutes

    Reflections on Tinsori Light

    By Sharon Lee and Steve Miller

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    For those who wish to see how a short story goes from outline to short story, this echapbook presents the outline for, and the completed short Liaden story, "The Space at Tinsori Light," with an explanatory foreword by Sharon Lee.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPinbeam Books
    Release dateAug 31, 2016
    ISBN9781935224952
    Reflections on Tinsori Light
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    Sharon Lee

    Sharon Lee has worked with children of various ages and backgrounds, including a preschool, a local city youth bureau, and both junior and senior high youth groups. She has a bachelor’s degree in sociology and also in psychology. Sharon cares about people and wildlife. She has been an advocate in the fight against human trafficking and a help to stray and feral animals in need.

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      Reflections on Tinsori Light - Sharon Lee

      Author's Foreword

      What is

      and

      What is not

      I suppose we'd better start with, What is this, anyway?

      The short answer is that this is an eChapbook distributed by Pinbeam Books. It contains the short story, The Space at Tinsori Light, by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller (also available with short story, Intelligent Design in the eChapbook Legacy Systems), the outline for the story, and this, the author's foreword/explanatory note.

      Next question: So what're we trying to pull here, selling the same story in two different chapbooks?

      Well, that's a good question. Short answer again: We're not trying to pull anything. The reason this book exists is because several people asked for it, in this form—or, at least, in the form of story-and-outline; this foreword is an extra. Try to think of it as a feature rather than a bug.

      The folks who asked for this book, in this form, apparently wanted it so that they could study the relationship between outline and finished story.

      Now, we—that's Steve and I—don't usually outline our stories. We don't usually outline our novels, either. Let's just say that we find that outlines are work, and we, grasshoppers both, prefer to get to the Fun Part—the actual writing of the story—so that's what we do.

      Tinsori Light therefore is an anomaly—a Lee and Miller story that was outlined in advance of being written. (We did, a couple times, and retroactively, outline novels, in order to adhere to publishing house rules regarding what constituted a proper proposal. But in every one of those cases, the book was written first; the outline extracted last.)

      What made Tinsori Light different?

      Well, as you'll see, it's not really much of an outline, as outlines go, but so far as it goes, it exists for a reason.

      The reason is that. . .Sharon—that's me—wanted to write this story. Had, in fact, wanted to write a story—or maybe a novel—about Tinsori Light since she first found Jen Sin yos'Phelium's 'beam message in Korval's records, and pasted it at the head of Chapter 29 in Scout's Progress, 'way back in 1993.

      In 2011, on her way to the Reno WorldCon on a train that was already eight hours behind schedule, she opened up her netbook and started to make a list of what might happen in such a story.

      The impetus, besides boredom, came out of the conjunction of two events.

      One, Sharon had quit her day-job in order to return to the carefree life of a freelance writer. Suddenly, she had lots of brain-power at her command that was no longer required for the keeping of databases and syllabi.

      Two, Steve and Sharon had started a new website called Splinter Universe (www.splinteruniverse.com), where they hoped to publish a new story every month. Liaden Universe® short story Kin Ties, had gone up just before Lee and Miller boarded the train for WorldCon, and another story would need to be ready for upload shortly after they arrived home again.

      All that being so, Sharon. . .outlined. . .the story.

      She had meant to write it during the WorldCon, but there

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