One of the unexpected side effects of the last few months’ unintentional hiatus and my generally lower writing output has been the return of an old idea I’ve never quite figured out how to bring to fruition. If any of you have wandered over to my Projects page [link] you may remember my blurb for Runner, a werewolf story I’ve been fiddling with since 2010 and, despite using it for two NaNo projects, getting nowhere with. Mostly because I can’t (couldn’t?!?!) figure out the conflict.
Maybe I just needed to let it sit.
It’s way too early to tell, and is still going to require the same buttload of work any novel takes, but it feels like the logjam that’s been holding it back has shifted. Plotbeavers, perhaps. Or maybe I’ve gotten a little more of the life experience I’ve needed to tell the story I want to tell.
F.A. Hakimian 