Sorry for the confusion. I meant second person short stories, not second person fantasy short stories. It was well after midnight my time when I posted this lol.
So second person, first person, and fantasy, all separate. I wrote a second person short story for a writing class three years ago this winter (wow...seriously that long ago? amazing) about a guy picking up his classic car that was just restored. Figured I can revise/edit it, add a little which I've now done, and do one of two things with: find a place to publish it or post it to my personal website once a friend of mine helps me redo what I've done. If I post it to my site, I can't make money off of it. As for the first person stuff, I wrote a short story smaller than the above one for yet another writing class. I'm taking it and showing how I'll rewrite it but on my blog, so a follow along set of posts showing its progression. Sounds fun so I started doing that, and it'll get posted when my site is redone. I'm not really sure this one will be published; rather keep it as a writing sample to my site, unless something else comes up.
Alright, so I don't mean this as a jab to those who commented on my fantasy short story recently. What I gathered is that I need to read a lot of fantasy shorts (note: not second or first person fantasy), and from this thread a lot of other shorts just to get a better idea of what to write. Perhaps In my head I blew it out of proportion haha. For now I'm putting that story aside on break and looking at these much shorter pieces. I guess what I dont know yet is if my short pieces will get published. So it shouldn't be a problem to write and edit them, and get feedback/give feedback to other writers, then set them aside until a time where I can get them published. Hey...at least they'd be "done" until such a time they still need polish! Reminds me of other pieces I have I want to post to my site, except they're not as polished as I would want. That just adds to the pile.
Hopefully that's not all a mess of text to you. Regarding audio books, those were recently recommended to me for those same reasons. The problem is I've struggled to focus on those. . Unlike with music, which I listen to in the car instead of the other. The words come in one ear and out the other. I've found it better to read the actual words than listen to them spoken. And that pretty much only goes for audiobooks, unlike, say a someone reading a news article online or a Sunday morning sermon at church. However....however with all that said and what you say, I'd just have to teach myself how to get better at listening to them.
Alrighty, what I can do is try audiobooks once again through either Audible or another source, find short stories at the library, online or in short story publications, and learn from those. If it's best to wait a little while to get myself published for the first time I can.
Whew...wall of text there. Thanks!