Friday Snippet - Mutagens
Welcome to my very first Friday Snippet! (*bites lower lip* nerves, nerves...) This is from a story called 'Mutagens' that I started a few years ago after having to edit a paper on childhood cancer. I had to do a fair amount of background reading on teratogens and mutagens and oncogenes and such like. Naturally, my imagination chewed on the science-y stuff, twisted it up with a bunch of other stuff bouncing around in my mind at the time - terrorism, homesickness, being a mommy - and next thing I knew I had this story idea burning a hole in my brain. This part is actually a bit that I cut when attempting to force the thing to be a short story, which it adamently refuses to be, so it will probably go back in in some form eventually. Anyways, here 'tiz: ******************************* She took James up onto the roof to play in the warm afternoon sun. So late in September the heat felt good, even though the light had taken on that glow that said in no uncertain terms that i...
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This'll be two - one official, one unofficial. And it is nuts. It's also very liberating, because the only way to "win" is to just let it suck and WRITE. You learn a lot and even if you never, ever show it to anyone, ever, you still get to say you wrote a book for the rest of your life. :-D
All ya gatta do is sign up at the website (I'm kestlebird, look me up) and start writing on November 1. C'mon, it'll be fun! I'll even send you my copy of the guidebook!
Anyways.
Apparently, I can't count. Yes, you're right, this would make 3. Yikes! Now go sign up, smarty-pants.
L - Yahooo! Welcome aboard USS Insanity and all that jazz! Start anyplace you like - characters are helpful, plot is not required, lethally large amounts of caffiene are. :-D