Melluva Hess
Okay, help me out here, gentle LJ friends who write. When's the last time you wrote outside your comfort zone? Maybe you're more into soft science fiction and tried your hand at New Weird fantasy or vice versa. Or maybe you had a good slipstream idea and slipped getting into the stream.
To wit, I challenged myself last Sunday to begin "The Adventures of Tick Tock Lad in Steam City" (tentative title, mind you). No doubt your amazing powers of deductive reasoning led you to the conclusion that, yes, Virginia, there is a steampunk story in there. At least, I'm thinking so, too, after six longhand pages, and with my cramped handwriting that would transcribe to roughly 10-12 typewritten pages depending on the narrative-to-dialogue ratio.
It's hard writing in a subgenre I'm not used to, but I'm not whining. I like the challenge, and I hope the story ends up the better for the nudges and kicks and pinches and threats I'm leveling at the inner Muse. She better buck up and start earning her keep--dang her time.
But I'm not dropping this draft. No sirree Bob. Uh-unh. Nope. I've got three generations of automaton bodyguards for werewolf hunters to account for along with a handwritten note personalized by Victoria herself to a soon-to-be mad scientist (tm). And Tick Tock Lad still hasn't gotten his own mini-Gatling gun from his owner, Dr. Lucius Scott. Two things prodded me to begin this current story project: (1) I haven't written a steampunk story, and (2) I haven't read a decent werewolf story nor written one (decent or otherwise).
So, if you care to talk about current writing hurdles, within or without your chosen genre, please do tell.
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