Friday 9 January 2015

A little venting about returning to writing

So I'm taking a stab at Flies; i've uploaded a lot of files and memories from my group home days. They all have vague titles like 'Reed bit' so at least I know at one time i intended it for the Reed character but i'm having trouble identifying why or what I should do with it.

I've rewritten the first chapter and prologue, making them both much shorter. A lot less exposition on Bill's part - a few pages of exposition on the other kids in the STOP program now gone. I will have to fit that in later.
Bill no longer confronts the woman who wanted a face to face with him - honestly I can't see how that would ever happen in real life. Instead of it being his ex-wife pushing people to confront him, she's now just an ex-girlfriend egging his house frequently.
He also has a dog named Apples.
Christine is the name of the Program Director
STOP stands for Sexual Therapy somethin' somethin'.  I'll have to find why i named it that.
Ben is Bill's peer in the group
Luke and Dustin live with Bill.

I've been invited to join this writing group - the idea is you review their works, they review yours. I'm not really participating yet. I feel indebted already to Tucker/High Water for his nice review so i have his 2nd book to read, 3 other free promo books i've downloaded. How the hell am i supposed to get time to write if i'm reading all the time?

Must be nice to not have 2 other jobs and be a dad to 3 kids.



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