Having completed “Barbed Wire Kisses, Icicle Tears” about 6 weeks ago and doing some editing, it dawned on me, that to make it even better, and work outside my comfort level, I’d have to completely rewrite it. I was depressed a bit about this, but Doug Clegg gave me some nice encouragement over on facebook, and I’ve decided to take the bull by the horns.
At first, it was a brothers who are serial killers novel, and I based it on America’s first known pair, The Harpe Brothers; I’ve decided to base it solely on them, and redo it in their time, which is the 1790’s. Needless to say, it will require far more research than I am used to, but think their story is so compelling-even if fictionalized, that it’s worth the effort.
Also working on another poem for Rich that has me stumpped, and very close to sending it to him with a gian HELP!! scrawled on it.
I’ve had that. One of first long stories I managed to finish I went back, read and thought, this isn’t right. But I enjoyed redoing it in the end and it turned out a lot better.
So keep at it. You won’t get anything done if you don’t!
The story sounds good.
And, you know, whenever you want to send that poem, it’s fine by me! =)
I jettisoned the last 25% of My Sister’s Keeper and started that section over from scratch. It made for a better, tighter conclusion, but it had me feeling overwhelmed for a bit
Thanks for the encouragement, and I’m going to get into it this week.