Reading and Writing.

Here's a thing. When you start writing your own stuff you suddenly pay much closer attention to the way other people write.

Jealousy becomes a serious problem. Sometimes you read material so good the envy overwhelms you and you have just sit there for a moment grousing that you didn't come up with the quote about electro music sounding "like a robot having a seizure".

And then you read the scratching you made on the paper in front of you, and end up feeling like you've read better worded, more complex, more gripping thrillers scribbled on a sheet of A4 by a hyperactive 5 year old with a dinosaur obsession and access to the wax crayon tin.

Then you let other people read your stuff because, hey misery loves company. but they tell you that have nothing to worry about. So you believe them. Until you have to sit down and try and write more at which point you remember you really can't write. Let alone in two different voices.

I have two main characters. two twin girls creatively named Aleksis and Aleksa who share very similar names for reasons that become obvious during the story,   There are other key characters. But none of them have really come out of the woodwork yet.

The story is written from the girls perspectives, which will serve to illustrate the two different sides of the story and explore the goings on much more widely. Despite this I'm hoping that the reader will still never be in full possession of all the facts at any one time.

I have already posted a snippet from Lexa. Its totally unrelated to anything much. But its a something. I may drop more little bits at other points.

It's hard to know what to do properly until I decide about trying to publish it. But then I'll need more than 6 chapters to know xD.


Anyway that's the news for now

Bethxx