Writing in Real Time

Well folks I have laid out the outline, fleshed out and met my characters and decided on how to write this first serial fiction.

Originally my idea was to write as I go. I thought this would be an excellent challenge and prove extremely interesting in terms of what actually happens in the story. There was the idea of exquisite anticipation that even I didn’t know what was going to happen until I wrote it.

I have rethought this and decided to write the entire story and publish it in episodes – 12 I think – and move straight onto the next one once it is done.

There are a couple of reasons for this rethink.

1. The pressure of writing the next episode by a set date. I can’t write like this in a fictional format. Non-fiction no problem but fiction as my fellow writers know is a completely different kettle of fish and one that I don’t want to risk turning rancid.
2. I’m concerned about ideas melding into the fiction from readers and therefore not making it a true work of my own fiction. I love fan fiction don’t get me wrong. However, I don’t want to be influenced by what others think should happen to a character, especially if they get killed off. I sleep much better knowing their fate is already sealed no matter what readers think or want to happen.

So I will spending the next two weeks finishing off the entire story and then scheduling it out and moving onto the next. I have a couple of books in outline form to get to as well. There is a sense of urgency for me now and a story from Jim Carey has really set a fire under me.

Jim spoke about learning from his father’s failure of failing at something he hated, so Jim decided to fail at something he loved. I have ‘failed’ over and over again at what has been expected of me in society so now, at 56, I’m ridding myself of that dogma and pursuing what I have always loved and if I fail at that, I’m sure I’ll find something else to fail at as well. The key for me is to keep trying as if there is no safety net (because there isn’t) and to abandon all fears and expectations of others who dwell in my subconcious but not in my actual day to day life.

Thanks for reading and see you soon as the River Brings Them.