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Home > "Sacrifice", Projects, The Writing Process > Quick Draft of “Sacrifice” Written

Quick Draft of “Sacrifice” Written

August 10, 2011 Mathias Leave a comment Go to comments

Last night I sat down wanting to touch up some things with my short story “The War Within”. But I couldn’t quite get in the mood. The story still needs work however I just could not figure out what to work on exactly.

Some parts are right as I want them. So rather than do something I would later regret I started free writing the short story “Sacrifice” and adapt to a story in a whole other world.

Unlike “The War Within” which gives some background to a secondary character in my project called “Dark Moon”, “Sacrifice” gives flesh to a character that I have written about in short stories (unpublished) before. However she is much more the main character in those stories.

I think the exercise was a good one. It got me off my current rut with “The War Within” and quickly I had a new story with a clear beginning, middle, and end. Right now it stands at 1,500 some words but there is a lot of straight dialogue without any added features to break it up. I plan on fixing that to make it more than just he said, she said, he said, she said, he said which is boring and can confuse the reader without pointers every now and again to let the reader know exactly who is speaking.

I have also decided to tell much of this story through flashbacks. Normally I abhor flashbacks but for this story I am going to try them. It seems to work.

Categories: "Sacrifice", Projects, The Writing Process Tags: Dark Moon, Dialogue, Exercise, Flashbacks, Flesh, Lot, Pointers, Sacrifice, Secondary Character, Short Stories, Short Story, Whole Other World
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