Part Two is slowly getting there. I don't write like I used to write.. dashing stuff off in a couple of weeks ( Missing Persons was 14,000 words in 4 days!). I am trying now to really work on developing the characters and the plot. It would be so easy to finish the story in a few days. Really really easy, and also tempting, but I know that it would be 'thin', that the story would not work properly and that I would not want to read it ever again. I like stories that have been worked on, that have been thought about, that have been put together with care and attention, not simply thrown down on the page in an attempt to satisfy the writer's lust for approbation. ( or their own private fantasies!)
I might not get many people reading The Shepherd, but at least I know that it's a serious piece of writing, and it's probably the best I can make it.
So, here I am, making Rebecca a much more 'real' character. At least I hope that she works out that way. My beta-reader called her a 'po-faced prig' and so I had to re-think her. Majorly. And she is much better now. ( I hope!) But it changed the direction of the story, and unfortunately means that a certain incident won't happen now. Rats.
(and I was SO looking forward to writing that!)
I finally solved the thorny problem of what colour sheets Alec Freeman has. I went for burgundy. Well, why not!
So, if you want to read The Shepherd Part One, it's online from next week here;
http://edstraker.net/
together with my latest attempt at drawing. ( Sky One)
(oh, and a rather ..'naughty' parody of one of the favourite sex scenes that UFO fanFic writers like.. it's called Mayland Hospital Room 101 - strictly for adults though)