Deepen The Characters (Just A Little)
I must be feeling better, because I've gotten a lot of writing done on "version 2" of my story Daytime For The Dead. Members of my writing group who'd read the original version will not recognize this one. It's totally different.
The problem I'm having is that, with all the things I want to do with the story, it's turning into a novelette. This happens a lot with my writing. It's because I'm really more of a novelist than a short story writer. I'm starting to think that maybe I should just go ahead and start writing novels again.
In the case of this story, it could very easily be turned into a novel. All I'd have to do is deepen the characters a little. Just a little. That's all it would take, and then these characters would write the story for me.
Also, in addition to doing some writing, I've been doing a lot of reading lately. And here's something I want to share with you: the public library system has really come of age. Especially here in Plano. All I have to do is log into their system over the Internet, tell them the book I want, and when it's ready for me to pick up their computer system calls me on the phone and tells me. If they don't have the book, they'll go out and find it. If it's in any library in the state of Texas, they find it and have it sent (with no charge to me) to my local library, and all I have to do is pick it up. And to check it out, I walk up to an autoteller looking machine, put my library card into the scanner, then place my book on the scanner, and BOINK! It's checked out. I get a little receipt and I walk out of the library.
On a nice day, I'll walk to the local library. It's less than a mile away, right along a scenic path beside one of the many creeks that run through town. Plano really is a great place to live.
The problem I'm having is that, with all the things I want to do with the story, it's turning into a novelette. This happens a lot with my writing. It's because I'm really more of a novelist than a short story writer. I'm starting to think that maybe I should just go ahead and start writing novels again.
In the case of this story, it could very easily be turned into a novel. All I'd have to do is deepen the characters a little. Just a little. That's all it would take, and then these characters would write the story for me.
Also, in addition to doing some writing, I've been doing a lot of reading lately. And here's something I want to share with you: the public library system has really come of age. Especially here in Plano. All I have to do is log into their system over the Internet, tell them the book I want, and when it's ready for me to pick up their computer system calls me on the phone and tells me. If they don't have the book, they'll go out and find it. If it's in any library in the state of Texas, they find it and have it sent (with no charge to me) to my local library, and all I have to do is pick it up. And to check it out, I walk up to an autoteller looking machine, put my library card into the scanner, then place my book on the scanner, and BOINK! It's checked out. I get a little receipt and I walk out of the library.
On a nice day, I'll walk to the local library. It's less than a mile away, right along a scenic path beside one of the many creeks that run through town. Plano really is a great place to live.
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