Friday check-in: Easter Weekend!
Ah, Friday again! Happy Easter weekend to those who celebrate!
Been tearing my hair out. As you can see from my signature, I've been doing a little experimenting with my upper-MG manuscript.
The whole goat story started in a little fit of foolishness that began "Wouldn't it be funny if...", but as I wrote, my more sensible self kept telling me that no adult could be remotely interested in reading low fantasy involving a kid entering the livestock exhibition at the county fair. So, with a huge amount of struggle and tinkering, it all morphed into MG.
But recently, a helpful and well-meaning fellow forumer (with the help of some weird alien mind control) suggested that maybe writing MG was stifling my "natural" writer's voice; that I really should be writing for an adult demographic. And she has a point. I'm basically a sarcastic, mean, nihilistic <insert noun of choice here>, and it's ridiculously difficult to disguise all that when writing for kids. I mean, I've learned to do it, but it makes writing a lot less fun for me...
So... I'm releasing the Kraken, and A Gamble With Goats is getting a second treatment (recognizing that it will be about as niche as niche can get!) For now, just the first few chapters to see if the premise holds up for an adult readership. I know I should probably be experimenting with a totally different story and characters, but Goats is pure gold, and I gotta see where I can take it. (Yeah, Dunning-Kruger set in a long time ago!) Wish me luck!
Sorry for the ramble... I'm discombobulated... So, is anyone else up to anything remarkably stupid that they'd like to admit to??