Ari: I thought that alpha-wolf stuff turned out to be bullshit?
Floria: Maybe it is. I wouldn’t want to be the one to try to explain that to a pack of werewolves.
For the last couple of days, I've been working on Big Demon on Campus, a short story about a young half-incubus who is trying to straddle the worlds of his human and supernatural sides while figuring out what it means to be a twenty-first century sex demon.
I already have a beat list for the story and it comes in at a very manageable fifteen beats in spite of the moderately large cast and surprisingly-complex themes I want to touch on. I'm hoping to keep the entire story under 75 pages.
The first thing I've written is a dialog between the main character and his potential love interest in which she infodumps roughly 4,000 words of worldbuilding on him. When you do that much exposition all at once, you have to break it up with action or it bogs down. This run was just to get the world out of my own head and into a form that I don't have to worry about forgetting it. The monospaced text above shows the last two lines.
Unlike my previous work on SOL, I'm planning to finish writing BDOC before I start posting it. I'm also planning to initially post it to the members-only section and and publish it on SOL's eBook platform in order to give readers who've shown an interest in helping finance my work a chance to do so.
If everything goes smoothly, I'll publish BDOC to Amazon 30 days in and release it to SOL's free-for-everyone readers 30 days after that.