THROWBACK THURSDAY
Looking back on something I wrote before I had my (as of today!) 580 Subscribers -- that's about 1275 Followers in total. At the time, I was just getting back into my writing. (Trauma will do that.)
This is my THROWBACK THURSDAY entry in case you didn’t know…
Back in November of ‘22, I was coming out of a dark place (refer to my “Scribbles” post: IT WAS AN ACCIDENT STEVE. It might be behind the paywall, I don’t know, I haven’t looked at it since I wrote it, and believe me, I doubt if it will ever show up here.) Anyway, to get myself back into writing again, I decided to try my hand at the National Novel Writing Competition, but didn’t have a real story in mind. I’d left it too long. I was writing another Story that wasn’t working for me. I put that aside and told myself I’d write a fantasy novel instead…like you can just do that without thinking it through. (Turns out, you CAN!) It also turned out being the first SERIALIZED novel I ever wrote.
A BEGINNER’S GUIDE TO TIME TRAVEL is NOT what it seems, so take a look at it. This is the opening piece… Oh yeah, at the time I had 53 Subscribers, by the time I finished it — it was longer than the required 50,000 words (more like 98,000) I had about 80…