I think it was the hardest story that I've ever written. I had a few scenes in mind and I had the main characters in mind - Adam Meyrink and Midnight Blue - and I had the city in mind - Prague. But, it was the devil's own work to get the thing to come together. I felt like a butcher carving up a carcass and then realising I'd done it wrong. Maybe more like a person making a patchwork quilt, looking the the squares and thinking, 'nope'. But I have finally beaten it into shape, I think.
The shape is helped by Blake Snyder's 15 beat structure and the genre. I have written it like a Whydunnit? However I started pantsing it (as you can tell) and ended up plotting it. I wonder if you can see the stitchwork? Is it as obviously sewn together as Boris Karloff in Frankenstein I wonder?
Take a look and let me know.
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