Finished plotting Bullet with Butterfly Wings

Finished plotting Bullet With Butterfly Wings

I say finished – in fact the last third wrote itself in a rapidly condensed three-line sentence but it still managed to fullfill what I wanted from plotting to start to finish – a clear defiined goal and purpose.

What had happened initially was that my plot kind of malformed into a elongated synopsis and before I knew it I was up too close and personal to the story whilst I tried to work out how Larz would persuade the bugs to help him liberate his friends.

That plotline wasn’t the issue, it was more of a case that I didn’t know what to do with the other characters and before I knew it I started to overthink and ran into a full stop. Not only that but this story is…well, pretty dumb and silly. It’s a Jay and Silent Bob Cartoon at best. Over arching plotlines shouldn’t matter when it’s the characters you come to see, baby.

Not only that this story will never, ever be published. It’s just too dumb, and seeing as it is story number 7 in a 1 novel and 6 short story series (where, I stress, the novel and the sextet novellas are all in states of what I shall commonly call ‘flux’) of very sketchy quality pieces of work I doubt I will even put it anywhere public. It’s for me, to actually finish a novelle that when I picked it a couple of months ago had me laughing my ass off. I love it when that happens.

..So I zoomed out on the story, kept things simple and saw everything from up high. Eventually this story will come in around the 25-30 thousand mark.

Now that the synopsis is written I need to dive in there and begin writing. I already have my Hong Kong Horror story and Warp Factory busy tapping their watches in the corner. They want attention.