What People Think of Me

In class this week, my peers and teacher described my work in 3 words. These are all the words that I got:

Descriptive Emotional Riveting Theatrical Dramatic Relevant Clear Descriptive Amazing Realistic YA Genre Well-Detailed Tense-Focused Beautiful Descriptions Never has a Title (lol) Character-Driven Creative Language Unique Drama Flirty Enjoyable Dark Dramatic Atmospheric Quirky Funny Unexpected Candid Symbolic Astute

In my last blog post, I discussed the type of pieces I like to write. I am mostly interested in YA stories with supernatural/fantasy/sci-fi themes. What I thought was interesting is that one of my classmates described my work as "YA Genre" and in class one of my peers said that she really enjoyed one of my short stories that had a supernatural theme. She also stated that she looked forward to reading more of the story and she would love to see it published as a full book/series.

I was also surprised that a few people described my work as dramatic, since I never would have picked that word specifically. I figured that my classmates picked the word dramatic since something intense happened in my second piece. I don't think that the two pieces I've submitted in class were very dramatic as a whole, but I do think that my work in general can be quite dramatic in regards to my plots. However, my classmates don't know what plots I have designed for my future works so I thought that it was funny they picked the word dramatic. Perhaps my work does read as more dramatic than I think it does. A lot of my peers also described my work as descriptive, clear, and detailed which I appreciated since I always try to clearly describe the scene I'm trying to convey.

Knowing how other people view my work is important because it allows me to get better insight into what literary journals would accept my work to publish. When I type in "YA literary journals" into Google, I am recommended YARN, Lunch Ticket, Hunger Mountain, Cicada Magazine, Foreshadow: A Serial YA Literary Journal and various other children's magazines that I could submit to. When I typed "Dark Literary Journals" into Google I found Light and Dark, a magazine that features short stories that play with the dichotomous nature of existence, which I thought was interesting.

When I typed in "Fantasy Literary Journals" into Google I was presented with a ton of different Literary Journals. Fantasy and Science Fiction, Analog, Ares Magazine, Clarkesworld Magazine, Psuedopod and many many more that all pay, usually per word.

My ideal Literary Journal would be a sci-fi/fantasy blog that believes in offering publication opportunities to new writers. I know some Literary Journals offer opportunities for the publication of the book/series/novella you submit, and this would be a great way to jump start the process of publishing all the future works I want to publish.