For the life of me, I couldn't come up with a catchy title for this month's blog, then I thought about the fact that I've been spending most of the last three months working hard for my son's high school marching band. I'm duly impressed, but that's no surprise. We are blessed to have one of the top high school marching bands in our town.
So between work, "doing the soccer mom" thing of driving to various sports practices and marching band practices, all the games and competitions, and adding scouts on top of it, I've had an active Fall to say the least.
September saw me writing in spits and spats, I was still in a lull of sorts. Finally dragged myself out of it by committing to rewriting MOONDRAKE, a 38k MMM Sci-fi/fantasy, I'd written in 2015 in response to a prompt and photo through Goodreads' MM Romance Group, Don't Read in the Closet.
I'd been stoked to get the prompt as I'd already written a prior flash fiction for it.
Here's the pic prompt:
My original 100 word flash was contemporary, but my letter prompt was science fiction. A merchant spaceship hijacked. Now I had to think hard... but I was pretty happy with my story, although I rushed it... and regretted it. After some thoughtful reviews were posted I knew what I needed to do, it just took me two years to commit the time to doing it. Now (as of Oct 25th) the original story has been altered. I added in the POVs of the two other main characters, took out some dubious non-con (not sure I had that in the first place) and some violence. Gave voice to a few other minor characters. All in all, I added about 7k (of course I probably took out a good 1k of "ick" along the way too). Thus creating Part I of the story.
The rest of the year is now devoted to writing Part II. I'd left my three men dangling with quite a few loose ends. Even as I'd finished writing the original I had plans to continue.
This is my chance.
Cracks knuckles
Wish me luck.
