Four months later, I finally have sent out my feedback form for the alpha readers of Thin Veils.Thin Veils: Returning to Writing
Literally my entirely family finally go hit with Covid within days of me sending the pages out to those who agreed, and between the almost 2 weeks of recovery, work, school, and life, I hadn’t gotten around to creating the questionnaire. I’m a little nervous but at the same time excited to hopefully hear back!
Writing has always been something I’ve dreamed about but could never bring myself to do. Once I did start writing here and there, the thought of showing it to literally anyone but my wife scared me to death. I had a couple friends I would show specific things to.. friends that I knew would like the content of what it was, and none of it was to complex. That was where I drew the line.
Last year, though, I finally buckled down and decided to start writing a small piece that I assumed wouldn’t really be seen by anyone, and before I knew it, the story kind of took over and began to expand past the scope of anything I had planned. Before I knew it, I had written 10k words and that’s when I decided to really hammer down with a goal to write and complete a full book.
Thin Veils was designed as a story to be an introductory series into a world I created in my head back in high school. It started off so small that it was only going to be a 2k word short story that was just fast paced. But the more I started writing, the more I needed to expand and make things come across in a manor that made sense. Before I knew it my original story didn’t work. The bones were right, but I wasn’t able to convey what was happening, without starting from scratch. So I started by taking the main character I had in my mind, and stripping him down to more than just a prop as an explanation, and decided to give him depth and a story of his own.
Without warning, the world developed around him, and the people who populated his life just naturally formed. A character from my short story, that was meant to be the main narrator, all of the sudden became the anthesis of what I had originally planned, with his role expanding and diminishing all at the same time.
NaNoWriMo started and before I knew it, the story was writing itself. It not been easy, and the roadblock of life that hit right after I sent out the alpha copy of the story so far, become a creative road block as well. Once school ended last week and extracurricular activities disappeared, I found myself having to keep notes on how to move forward, and this weekend I’m excited about writing another 2-3k words!
