Chapter 6 is Live

Sorry about the very long wait on this one.  A few things have been going on, my daughter was born recently for one (which was wonderful).  But now I'm back and writing again.  This newest chapter I whipped up in just a couple days, which is nice since it usually takes me a full week.

I've been very pleased with the rewrites for this novel.  It seems a lot more grown up.  It takes itself more seriously now, but in a good way.  This is really the first time we see Randy in any detail.  The first time I created this character, I'd simply just been planning to kill him off in a later scene.  But Randy survived that scene.  It surprised me how savvy he was.  I also came to like the little guy despite his sillyness and childish flaws.

It seems that as the stories go, Randy becomes a stronger and more capable character, really stepping into the role of monster hunter.  But it's whether or not this shift in attitude changes his character that remains to be seen.

Follow this link to see the newest chapter:

http://hiredgunnovel.blogspot.com/

Happy Friday

Chapters 4 and 5 have dropped on my new blog.  Hit the link below to check them out.

http://hiredgunnovel.blogspot.com/2016/05/chapter-5.html

Actually, why does everything drop these days?  Remember when the only that dropped was balls?  Get your mind out of the gutter, I was talking about News Years.  Used to be that only rap albums dropped and every thing else either got released or just came out.  But I guess saying that something has dropped makes it sound a bit more dramatic than: I have recently pasted about 2000 words of fiction from my word processor into a blog post and have clicked Publish afterward.  Not dramatic at all.

So, these two chapters see the introduction of Cynthia and Randy, two characters who seem very popular among my many and diverse fans (just my writer's group consisting of four people including myself).  It's been really fun to redo these scenes and watch them turn into something more grown up.  The new prose really change the story into something comfortable that takes itself seriously.  I like it.