December 2024 Writing Update

Ah! Yes! Another month passed! A whole month between this post about writing and my previous. If the dates on the posts tell you otherwise, they’re clearly lying.

Anyway, that’s just the sort of psychological horror I’ve been getting up to lately. Upon finishing my second draft of the novel, I went into some liter fare. Something that would be a bit more fun, a bit more low stakes, and tonally different. I wanted to work some different mental muscles on another sort of narrative, in more ways than one. So, back to my scary short story I went. Just in time for Halloween, I might add.

Well, upon jumping back into the sanitarium, the first couple sessions were rough, I admit. Frankly, it took some time just to remember where the plot was at, what the characters were meant to feel like, and how I wanted the story to progress and those same characters to deteriorate. It’s based upon a screenplay I did some time ago, but obviously a lot of fat (and non-fat) is trimmed for the sake of making the short in “short story” not be an outright lie. I am hoping to finish it up by Sunday December 22, but we’ll see if that holds true. It’s part of my Resolution to be proud of something I wrote that genuinely unsettles me, even a little. And I think this is my chance to do that. Certain things in it just feel right, to me at least. Here’s hoping you can read it on Substack soon! Which, by the by, I’ve definitely published on this year. Yeah, totally. Don’t check please.