For over a century the town of Nowhere
has been a battleground between two ancient families of
magicians,
one determined to claim it back as their own, the other to stop the
town from being used to end the world. At least, that's how the
propaganda machine of the Smiths goes ...
Wray couldn't care about any of that.
His memories of his human life seemingly stripped away in the
transformation into a ghoul in the town cemetery, all he wanted was
to be left along to gnaw on some corpses. Instead one of the Smiths
had dragged him into the world with the intent of civilizing him and
getting him on a no-humans diet.
If that wasn't bad enough, the local
police have threatened to arrest him for the crime of existing, a
magician has summoned Bigfoot into the town, werewolves are having a war over territory and the ancient battle between the Smiths and
Joneses is heating up, with Nowhere as a focal point – and when you
have centuries of enmity stoking the fires, the resulting
conflagration could be more than anyone expects.
Tagline: some meals even a ghoul won't eat, especially those spiced by revenge ...
The tagline needs serious re-working but I do like how it highlights one aspect of the plot that the blurb does not. I suspect the actual blurb used, in the end, will be a modification of the first paragraph of the story with the last paragraph of this blurb-attempt, but it is at least something.
As for the story itself, I've reached the point where I'm entirely happy that the first draft is being tossed aside. A few lines are being kept, some scenes reworked: Say, 1,000 words out of 50,000 will be salvageable in this treatment. It is more extreme than normal, but also the first time I've tried doing a story almost entirely by the seat of my pants, hence the utter failure of story and setting to mesh together.
I've finally reached the point where my now-basic method of 'write a draft, toss it aside, redo it' has reached my brain as: 'This is your method. Deal with it and don't burn out on the story.' I'm also dealing with the fact that most stories I am working on now want to have sequels and be series despite years of having no desire to do anything like that at all.
We change, and what/how we write changes. I figure as long as I still enjoy writing -- which I do, even past the dreaded 1 million words marker -- I should just embrace things and run with them. Hopefully they shall lead to a finish line :)
As for the story itself, I've reached the point where I'm entirely happy that the first draft is being tossed aside. A few lines are being kept, some scenes reworked: Say, 1,000 words out of 50,000 will be salvageable in this treatment. It is more extreme than normal, but also the first time I've tried doing a story almost entirely by the seat of my pants, hence the utter failure of story and setting to mesh together.
I've finally reached the point where my now-basic method of 'write a draft, toss it aside, redo it' has reached my brain as: 'This is your method. Deal with it and don't burn out on the story.' I'm also dealing with the fact that most stories I am working on now want to have sequels and be series despite years of having no desire to do anything like that at all.
We change, and what/how we write changes. I figure as long as I still enjoy writing -- which I do, even past the dreaded 1 million words marker -- I should just embrace things and run with them. Hopefully they shall lead to a finish line :)
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