I live! I liiiiiiiiivee! Okay, I'll stop that. But yes, I am alive. This past month has been devoted to work, so I hadn't been able to find time for a new Experiment. Aside from having to start Swedish lessons, I've been working on the initial edits of my latest novel, which is finished (only not really, cause, you know, editing) and writing a couple of short stories for anthologies I'd like to submit to. All of which needs beta readers that I have to somehow find. No rest for the wicked, I guess.
But I'm clearing some time this month to do some Experiments, because I miss them. It's nice to write something just because I
can. Just for the heck of it. There isn't much pressure to writing the Experiments. They're not widely read and they are, well, experimental. Therefore they can just be fun.
After realizing how damn long I've been away from the Syndicate stories, I decided to do one this past week. I've been away from those way too long, let me tell you. For a long time I kept waffling over it, because I didn't feel like I could keep making them standalone. My ideas were all very serial-like. In the end, I decided to just run with that, and start a story arc, which means Flight doesn't do much standing alone. For which I do apologize, but I've never tried to write a story this way and I think it'll be interesting. It is, after all, an experiment.
Also interesting: Writing Eva. I don't even remember exactly what my original intentions were for the character. I just know she turned out very different from my first imagining of her. She became a lot more complex to write, and it's a struggle to balance her mindset. I don't want her to be a whiny, moping emo loser, but she does have a lot of emotional baggage to deal with. If nothing else, it's good practice. And I'll stop babbling at you now. :D (Further Syndicate stories can be found under the tags for 'Syndicate stories' and 'series'.)
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