I’ve been having trouble deciding if I want to just add a bunch of new words to my revision of Wound or make sweeping adjustments and changes to the words I already have. Logistically, there is little difference between the two, but somehow when I’m working on each episode, it feels like night and day.

One of my smaller characters, Armond, entered and left the story in a way I didn’t predict and as I continued into Seasons 2 and 3, I always regretted how we left things. It was like a mutual break-up, but one where nothing was resolved and each party just decided not to fight anymore. The pain has lessened but there is no satisfaction.

And if I wasn’t feeling satisfied as the writer, I can be sure my readers weren’t either.

When I came back to season 1, I wanted to give Armond more sense of being part of the group and not just an aside character. He felt outside the main group – and while group dynamics always produce an in-group and an out-group, I didn’t feel like I’d establish relationships and boundaries to make that apparent. It was only the first episode, and my mind was on Bev.

Technically, it was on Jake. I always start with a character when I write a story. Whether it’s something they said, or some weird situation they’ve gotten themselves into. The first sentence of a story draft usually starts something like, “John Doe spat out his cigarette as he failed to strangle the duck.”

(quietly puts that sentence into the idea box)

Unless it’s dialogue, then I start with that. I don’t necessarily want to start in media res or in the middle of the action, but more interestingly, I want to start in the middle of a thought.

Next time, I think I’ll talk about why that’s a mistake and setting description is more important at the very start. See you then.

Thanks! – B.

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