7 days, 7 authors, 7 questions answered. Welcome to day 3!
Question
3: Tell Us About Theme Writing
What
challenges did you work though writing for a theme or such a short work for the
anthology?
Having to keeping things
short and sharp. Most of my works are around the 40,000 – 50,000 length
so trying to tell the story and do my characters justice in such a short word
count was a challenge.
After reading shifter romance for probably a dozen years, I was
cautious if I’d be able to do the genre justice in such a short word count. I
usually write in first person (I and my) but decided to write this as third
person to stretch not only my genre’s but my point-of-view skills. I put more
weight on my shoulders than probably was necessary, but I love to challenge my
own writing. And in the end I loved it! I actually wrote a blog post about the
journey. Love to have you check it out.
My biggest challenge always
is having a word count limit, however His Guardian Panther just poured out of
me and the story felt complete.
Partly because I was
emulating Noir-style detective fiction, which by it’s very nature were short
and fast, the word count wasn’t an issue. However, because this world is part
of an Epic Fantasy, I feel like there’s sooo much I didn’t get to share. Like
entire continents of story these characters don’t even look at. My difficulties
were much more in trying to get my main character to behave like an alpha; I
was worried I missed the mark completely, but I guess I did alright.
Keeping within the word
count. It would have been very easy to add much more, about all three of my
characters. Anthology calls have this danger for me. A few times there’s just
been too much about the characters, and what happens to them, to keep within
the word count.
Writing anything with a
word-count limit is its own challenge. But, for me personally, I am the WORST
with deadlines. Thankfully, I’m pretty good at lighting a fire under my own bum.
Wishes to let his story
speak for itself, damn it. Now stop asking questions and let him write more
delicious stories.
Thanks for stopping by. :)
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