Sometimes, you’ve just got to start over.  Week Two is in full swing, and my first hurdle of the project has been met.  This week’s story is an attempt to craft a submission for the upcoming Permuted Press anthology The World Is Dead.  The anthology is a good fit for a few of the stories on my concepts list, so I’m going with an idea called The Doorman.  Problem is, and here’s the hurdle, I started writing it, got about 600 words in, and realized it sucked and it needed to go in a completely different direction.  One character was unbelievable, I didn’t understand motivations, and just bleh.

Sometimes, you’ve just got to start over.  I knew in a second draft, every single one of those words would be cut.  I mean, not EVERY one of them.  There were a few “the”s, “and”s, and “a”s in there that I thought were quite strong, but those are such dime-a-dozen words I don’t ming throwing them away and making new ones.  So the false start has been torn apart, and I started over.  I’m about 900 words into a story that has to be at least 2000 words, and I’m feeling much better about it this time.

Victory shall be mine.