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Day 3–Exercise 3: Heartless

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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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I'm a long time writer returning to narrative fiction after several years of writing screenplays. The problem with scripts is that no one reads your writing except to see it as a blueprint for visual interpretation. The positive is that you learn to write using an economy of words (like in a short story), as well as pay strict attention to grammar and punctuation.

Like most writers, I began in my early teens--burning out blue ink 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.

Currently I'm participating in 12 Short Stories (free) and 52 Scenes / 52 Weeks for 2025. Found the recent 30 Days of Plotting to have been incredibly beneficial. Deadlines have always worked for me, this site is exactly what I was looking for.

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