What are you working on?

I'm not doing a damn thing at the moment. Too busy getting the forum up and running. Now that that's "done" enough to exhale a bit, I'm experiencing a bit of postpartum depression. Not really, but I woke up today, like, well, shit, I guess I should mow the lawn and get the garage sorted.

Soon I want to put something in the Workshop to get that going. I want to write it raw directly on the forum with only brief passes for grammar and clarity. See how that goes.
 
Found this recently and was wondering if I can rewrite or something, a monologue from a play I was writing 7-8 years ago (translated in Google Translate):

FLASHBACK TWO - Rooftop of a building, Husband, Wife and Felix lying on the mattress
HUSBAND flinches
Home already?
FELIX
No. But listen (takes out a crumpled piece of paper and starts reading), drink a lot of fluids. (Don't get excited about everything.) Especially in summer. (And not everything has to be all at once.) A clove of garlic instead of the medicine. Don't hide away, don't mess with the auditors. (And don't be stupid.) When your soup burns in the only pan you have - oh fuck it, brother, I don't know what to tell you. Draw the line there. Take the soup or what's left of it - like a sign. Because otherwise all this will go on and on and it will be more and more difficult for you to be able to remember where you came from and why and what all this is for... Felix gets out.
 
@Pik you have an interesting premise! I always like writing flashbacks so work on this outline... there is a story in there!

....

I have been editing a lot lately. Written a new story to fit into my anthology (32 stories- 11 gone through deep edits) and progress is slow as this is largely down to a much more careful approach in analysing each word and sentence and passage in regards to the read.

I'm being very picky about the flow and direction to the point, I colour different passages to see if this is pushing the story into a different path too much that needs to be developed more so the story is more consistent and balanced, or if sections needs to be removed because I am losing the central theme of the story.

Think this is the problem with being a pantser. But it's fun.
 
Working title: Darci

I think I may be over thinking mine 😅



Darci Evans, English, hereditary witch, bisexual. Currently working as an intern in a solicitors office because it's what is expected of her. Wants to study botany and be a reiki healer.

One day at work she makes a small mistake, but her boss blames her for the fallout and sacks her. When she gets home her girlfriend breaks up with (not because Darci got sacked). Darci decides to escape and goes to her late mother's holiday home in Cornwall. When she arrives she sees a group of youths attacking a man. Rescues him and realises he is different; he's a selkie. He's searching for his twin sister who's been missing for months. Darci helps him find her, rescues her and falls in love with the man as she does so.

It was supposed to be a story about being yourself, being happy doing what you want instead of expectations... But now I'm wondering if the story is about the brother finding his sister?

I may be over thinking things... 😅
 
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Louanne Learning said:
It probably depends on whose character arc you want to follow from the start to the end of the story. Who are you going to focus on? In whose POV are you going to write?

P.S. Welcome Moon Child good to see you here!
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I've started with Darci (first part is on .com and Scrib). It's only now I figured out the love interest and that part of the story.

And thanks for having me, love 😊
 
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