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Being Free Within Genre

Hello Readers!

Sorry I have been away.  Last week was sort of...well...not great.  But I did get a little bit of work done.

I am in the process of typing up Act I.  I have typed up chapter one so far.  As I type up Act I, I have some goals I want to hit:
  • Delete all of the other POVs except for one of them.  I was attempting to do a multiple POV thing, and I didn't like it, and so I have decided to do it from a single POV.  I know this means that I am going to be deleting like, half of what I have hand written, but that's how writing goes sometimes.  And overall, I think it will help my book be better.

  • Change one of my characters from a mystical/fantasy type character to more of a mortal psychic character.  My character needs to be "gifted" but she was feeling a little too deus ex machina for my taste, so I'm tweaking her a bit.

This doesn't seem like a tremendous amount of work, but I'm not quite ready to do big edits yet.  I'm just typing up what I have written, and making it a little easier as I start writing Act II.

As far as what I am writing right now, I am working on a short story.  The deadline for submission is February 1st, so I have some time to make it a good one. I'm having fun with it. 

I'm really writing with pride for one of the first times in a long time.  I've always been kind of a closet horror writer, writing literary fiction with some horror themes kinda snuck in, but now I am openly writing horror, I'm submitting to horror magazines/journals.  I'm officially joining the Horror Writers Association next year. It's a very freeing feeling.  When I was younger, I thought that writing within a genre would be too constricting, too controlling, but I've found it to be the opposite. 

And I am freaking loving it.




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