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So, I’ve spent most of the day editing the first part of Differently Super, which is the first seven chapters. I am mostly cleaning up the weird grammar, missing words, and clunky sentences. I’m surprised that I am so willing to edit my own work as in the past I’ve treated every word I’ve typed…
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Chapter 11 Beware the Undertow Robert and Luke were walking down the hall towards the administration wing in the Denver SUAVE HQ. That was a mouthful so the tended to shorten it to DQ. That way they could talk about it anywhere and all people thought they were talking about was ice cream. Although there…
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Chapter 10 The offer they couldn’t refuse Max was confused as to what exactly was going on. He had been since Detective Murphy had picked him up and taken him to a special part of the main headquarters of SUAVE in Denver. It was a small dark building on the east side of the campus.…
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Chapter 9 Meetings Old and New Sara heard the car’s engine as Robert pulled into the driveway. Thank, Jesus, they were home. She felt as if she’d been holding her breath ever since he’d left to get Mina early this morning. She always worried when he was doing something Super related. It was bad enough…
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Imagine a room in the basement of a random building. As the man enters, to his left are pamphlets for many different support groups and to his right is a table with coffee and donuts. The kindly old man who stands before the man hands him a specific pamphlet with the letters, P.A. on the…
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So, I just finished with what I am thinking of as Part 1 of my superhero novel. I am thinking of breaking it into four parts, The first is called Falling apart, and is how the superheroes found their way, either through bad luck or failure on missions, onto the team. The next part I…
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Chapter 4 took a lot longer than I hoped it would. I got distracted by life and began to wonder if this was even a worthwhile endeavour. I’ve realized that I have ADHD and was only really diagnosed a couple of years ago, but like every who has it, I’ve dealt with it my whole…
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So, I found a couple of old prose poems that a wrote more than twenty years ago and relaized how much I had changed and at the same time how much of me remains contstant. I’ve always been a romantic, mostly a hopeless romantic. A few months ago, I uncovered a few of my earlier…
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In writing this story, I found something interesting. It is as possible to immediately connect to a character. Three of my four main characters came easily to me. Mina, The Maw, just appeared fully formed in my imagination demading to have some attention and for me to write her story. Ethan, Tortie, came from me…
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Greetings and salutations, fellow dreamers! my hope is that you enjoyed the rough draft version.2 of my first chapter. Next I am working on how to introduce the other 3 main characters. I’ve starting on chapter 2, Tortie, but I think I might rework it a bit. Try to do more showing then telling. Chapter…