Cover and Drafts (also other ideas) · 12:26pm Aug 30th, 2019
Working my way through the first editing pass and seeing if things are landing as well as I want. I'm trepidatious about how things will turn out considering there's a fair bit of explanation going on in the tail end of a story that until now has been all about unknown horror. The hope is that pulling back that veil shows something that doesn't lessen everything else. Then again, I could likely remove some of that info and still hit these general beats.
Anyway, here's the cover I think I've settled on, though that's only because I found it on my hard drive while trying to edit another picture:
Also, I'm considering writing another story for October specifically while I pass around an edited pass of this to some people. I'm waffling between two ideas but I think I'll settle on one soon and start writing. It's between "Moondancer finds a strange book" and "The Student Six share stories from their cultures around a campfire" at their most basic.
As much as I'd want to know what it is I've always enjoyed horror that has no explanation.
When I was a kid and I used to read all of Stephen King's books I liked the short stories more for that reason, the short stories had weird monsters without any explanation and the protagonist didn't always live.
In either case I'm excited to read more of this story. I actually found this story looking through the horror tag hoping to find an original horror story that was unlike most stuff that's popular.
As for the other stories I think Moondancer finds a strange book sounds like it could be cooler but I think The Student Six share stories from their cultures around a campfire sounds like it could be more fun.