Instead, I rather liked this story it as it is. It has a certain melancholy, a bittersweetness that I quite like. It's not a happy story, not even close, but I do enjoy it and I hope that you will too - even if it makes you sad.
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After “The incident” they’d taken Fran away, and now Eve was stuck with an identity confused bonsai plant.
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Wanting to write - really wanting to write - means shutting up, sitting down and actually doing it
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Dear reader, If there is anything I have learned over the past several years, it is that I am very good at rewriting things. My current book (the not-so-well-loved, often-times-bemoaned novel Extinguish), is on it’s ninth draft, and second edit. When I refer to drafts, I talk about major rewrites and overhauls. That doesn’t include all the little (and by little I mean the entire book) edits I did of each draft. This time, I’ve decided to shift a pivotal event to a later point in the novel, and to also cut a central character. I still have to rewrite the new ending (I canned the old one in draft…