The Alpha Reader stage is complete on “Exit Interview.” Now the story is in what I like to call the cooling period. This is a trick I learned from Stephen King. Any would-be writer could glean a thing or two from his book, On Writing. In the cooling period I let the story sit for […]
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Exit Interview 1st Draft
The first draft is complete! This one took awhile. Life intrudes with husbandly and fatherly duties, work, and other joyous life events. This story continues to surprise me. Originally, I thought this might be a short-short. It has morphed into a typical short story with a little under 2500 words in the initial draft. And […]