I’ve been playing with a scene that fits in to an early sequence of novel No 3 (Hard Drives).
Over the last fortnight I’ve given it a lot of mental energy, examined it from different perspectives, changed the narrators ‘voice’ as well as shifting narration from first to third person (and back again).
At last, happy that it’s ready for paper (albeit electronic paper) on the drive home this evening I started outlining the scene syopsis.
Two hours later I pulled up to the house – with a brand new short story almost completely dictated.
I got so caught up in the mentally-refined version that as I dictated the scene I realised that with a few minor tweaks it could stand alone as a short.
And so it will.
I don’t know if it’s good enough for publication – I’ll have to look at the finished article to make that decision.
But it’s not bad.
All I need is a title…
B.
You can dictate stories? Wow!
It takes ages of thinking and mentally rehashing to get a project up to dictation standard. In the dictation process the project will get heavily edited too many times to count.
Then it becomes a draft work where it gets rewritten several more times and heavily edited, then moderately re-edited then lightly re-re-edited.
Then it goes in to ‘tweak’ mode.
I wrote ‘Horse’ from start to finish in eight days; ‘Brain Dead’ in five days.
The piece in question is having mental Post-Its applied that cover such missing or ‘not enough of’ subjects as temperature, smell, central nervous system reaction, flashback, sounds.
Bet you wished I’d shut up now…
🙂