Bleh, not happy with this one, but I'm struggling already and falling behind. But I just got to crank something out. It's a possible early-dramatic-form-draft of a scene for that prose story I've been scribbling, about a little girl in New England learning witchcraft from her aunt.

I've changed Maggie's name to Megan, for reasons.



( Day #21 - The Wand )

Another from the story about the little girl with the witch aunt. This takes place after #24 - “Under the Pier”, and is building on the oddness of the other girl Maggie, and encouraging the reader to wonder what’s up with her.



( Day #27 - Magic Buddy )

Another scene from the story about the little girl with the aunt who’s a witch, while I work on a harder scene to crack.



( Day #22 - Fisherman’s Cave )

I am reaching the point of Mrs. Hawking 7 where I won’t have to do any more drafting, and should instead move on to editing. At the moment, I only have one scene left to draft, and it’s tricky because it involves structural details of the mystery. I always find that stuff the most labor-intensive part of the craft process, so scenes that require it almost always get left to the end.

So while I chip away at that, I’m posting scenes from something I’ve already been working in— an experiment in a prose project, with important conversations worked out as drama. I do this to deal with the problem with a generation-only challenge, where real writing work in the form of editing is happening, but doesn’t result in something I can post.



( Day #20 - Aunt Rachel )