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Smashwords – Raven Lake Summer – a book by Bastille Winters
hello, my dear readers… I know it has been a very long time, but as promised, I wrote a novella. it’s called “Raven Lake Summer,” and as of today, it’s available on Smashwords (and iBooks, and a few others as well) for just $1.99! support my writing and I’ll do more of it! 🙂
For some reason I can’t seem to get started again. I keep coming back to where I left off, and reading over it, it doesn’t seem like I’ve made a misstep…
Inspiration, I needja now.
Sufficient sleep has eluded me lately, but it’s not been all bad; a tired, loopy mind is a fertile place for brainstorming to occur. I sat down this morning and wrote outlines for each of the secondary characters’ arcs, all four of them. I won’t include at least half of what I wrote down, because it’ll be happening off-screen, but I’m finding it to be an incredibly useful exercise. Now, when my secondary characters are off-screen, they won’t be like puppets: useless unless I have my hand up their asses. (Wait. What?)
Inevitably, my favorite character in (insert show/book/movie/fandom here) is a secondary character, but I’ve yet to quite capture a good supporting cast. I think this might be the secret: giving them lives outside of recorded events, especially when the tale is told in a limited p.o.v. (in this case, third-person limited, probably to two characters max, barring the epilogue). Of course, it does help that I’ve known these characters for 13 years, but still, they were never this vibrant before.
Now, to figure out how to make the main character likable and not just a whiner. CHALLENGE ACCEPTED.
One day, we (August and Jill) found an article on Buzzfeed called 50 Unexplainable Black & White Photos. We were both intrigued and felt that each image demanded a story – so we have set out to write all 50 stories within the year 2012.
Each week, barring two, a new story will be posted on a Wednesday to go along with one of the images. The image and the story, which will usually be a flash fiction piece between 1k and 2k words, will be posted with credit given to the writer for that week.
Hope you enjoy the spooky, uncanny, imaginative stories we come up with!