Day 3–Exercise 3: Heartless

No Warning

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 if it's good it becomes a film, not a bestseller that people read over and again or recommend to friends. No one reads your writing except to see it as a blueprint for visual interpretation. The good thing is you learn to get lean with words (like in a short story), as well as pay strict attention to grammar and punctuation.

Like most writers, I began in my youth--in my case 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 will be available for sale on Amazon, November 1st.

Currently I'm involved with 12 Short Stories (free) and the incredibly beneficial 30 Days of Plotting, where I'm working on the sequel to my novel. Deadlines have always worked for me, this site is exactly what I was looking for.

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