It's alive!

Hello!

I hope this blog finds you well. I am happy to say that I am 1500 words into a new WIP, and it feels so much like other stories I have written, but the focus is quite different. Its inception came from one part of my personal history, and it's grown into its own entity from there. I'm so excited to be writing again -- it's been too damn long.

Here's a snippet:

“I just feel like it’s where I’m supposed to be,” I replied, cradling the phone awkwardly between my shoulder and ear.

The lie was uncomfortable, even if my answer was only partially untrue.

But she wouldn’t understand. No one would.

And so, that was my story.

After so many years, I was returning to my hometown in not-quite-here-or-there, Texas, and I was doing so voluntarily.

Sort of.

I'm enjoying letting the pieces fall where they may with this one, for now. I'm aiming to crest 5K and then take a step back and feel out the characters and storyline further and though I do have a general timeline in my head (shock gasp awe whoa!), I might actually take a stab at outlining.

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Spoiler alert: I almost never outline. Historically, I find that I have outlined myself into a corner, but I'm going to make the goal to define 4 key parts of the story: The initial meet-cute (because believe it or not, there is no supernatural or fantastical slat to this one - we're talking good old fashioned boy-meets-girl here), the initial conflict and the build that correlates, the climax, the beginning of the resolution. I'll think on the denouement as we go along. I don't like to have the endings of my stories defined too terribly much (please see previous point about writing myself into corners -- and BOOM, suddenly my novel is a short story).

As I continue pre-writing for this little gem, I think I may begin writing some prompted shorts and posting them here, or perhaps on Tablo, just to keep myself in the writing rhythm. If you have a requested prompt, feel free to tweet at me or leave a comment here.

Otherwise, I'm going to go ahead and get back to the work of writing this story.

Ciao!

- CE