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20230928 Story Ending/Contest Return

September 28, 2023, 9:15am

Only 1200 words of the story yesterday.

I did get 7 rejections... 4 jobs, one poem and 2 short stories. At least the woman I like didn't reject me again, so there is that.

I think I have a third option for the ending of my werebat story. Not happy, but not truly depressing.

What I do is I write, and let the characters take me where they want to go. I feel a lot of the time like the stories I write do not come from me; I am merely the scribe for the life stories of those I have created. The problem is, here I have two different characters dragging me in two different directions, and so I might have to make a call.

Or, and this is most likely what I'll do, is I will write three different versions of the final chapters, see which one works best, and use that one. It means writing a few thousand words that will end up discarded, but that is what being a writer is all about, right? Killing the darlings?

Oh well.

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On a slightly different topic, I decided to do the Horror Writing Contest again for October.

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Horror Writing Contest  (13+) A contest involving writing a horror story. Simple, really. #2273172 by Santeven Quokklaus

Part of me trying to pull myself out of the mental funk she has put me in.

But, if you wish, give it a go.

It seems most have given up on the horror writing lessons, so I might as well do something.