It is the First if July and the more observant of the Sol readership will have noted the non-appearance of The Comrade’s Tale Part 3 in the New Stories list. Of course the vast majority of the Sol readership will not give a fat rat’s rectum if The Comrade’s Tale Part 3 was posted or not but at least one reader did note the non-appearance.(Thank you, Peter H)
I have no excuse for failing to deliver the goods. I continued writing but the direction of travel was not to the end of the chapter and the story but sideways and I now have a last chapter #15 rather than #12 but still incomplete.
The trouble is I am a scribbler rather than a writer.
A writer is dedicated and focussed. A writer takes the time and trouble to learn his/her craft and knows an Oxford comma from a plebeian uneducated one, the difference between third person limited and third person omniscient POV, how to show not tell, abhors adverbs, and can spot a gerund at twenty paces.
A scribbler like me has none of those attributes.
When a writer begins a story he/she has a story outline/narrative arc, extensive notes on their characters, spread sheets and Scrivener (whatever that is).
When I start a story all I have is a MC and an ending; how the story develops is in the Lap of the Gods, or in this case in the rectum of a fat rat.
I intend completing this story and when I do will give a heads up.
Regards
Jack G