Day 3–Exercise 3: Heartless

The sequel to my novel has a few new POV characters, so I'm exploring the "cast" during this challenge. This is one of the new characters that showed up in the horrendous and out of control 1st draft I began during the last NaN😭. Pantsing works for my short stories; I need a bit more planning for a novel! This scene will occur later in the story, after Nia gets embroiled in the case to catch a serial killer. The murders are a subplot, but do tie to the main plot by journey's end.

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Carcer

I'm a long time writer returning to narrative fiction after several years of writing screenplays. Like most writers, I began in my early teens--burning out ballpoint pens by scrawling in a spiral notebook. My handwriting was atrocious, as was my craft. 😁 But like most things, the more you practice, the better you get. Fast forward forty years and here I am.

My first novel, Empire of Light 1: The Spirit of Innovation is available through Amazon, and winner of Best Steampunk by the Independent Press Awards. My current WIP is an urban fantasy funkpunk noir, titled RUNE.

Deadlines have always worked for me, this site is exactly what I was looking for.
Participation: 12 Short Stories (free), 30 Days of Plotting 2024, 52 Scenes / 52 Weeks 2025, Flash Fiction 2025.

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