Turns out – the brain wasn’t as fried as I thought it was. After my own read through and comments back from the person whom I let read it through as well (and our comments were spot on with each others) the story known as A Flash of Dark, has taken on a life of it’s own. There is far much more that I want to learn about my two main characters than be contained in the small count of 23K.

It’s funny, you know, a few years ago – 23K was nearly impossible for me. Of course, I usually dealt with snippets of stories where you came in during the middle of the story and you didn’t worry as much about character development and more on action. Emphasis on action *g*. There’s nothing wrong with it – really, I still do it from time to time. It actually helps sometimes when I’m working on something where I can’t quite spew out what I’m trying to say. I learned that I sometimes need to let the brain fly and go forth to prosper. It works out better in the end.

Even the few times I tackled full length stories, I usually crashed and crashed hard. There were burn marks on my butt, if that tells you anything. But, as with anything else in life, we learn from failure. You either pick yourself up, dust all the scorch marks off and throw yourself back into the fire – or you burn to ash.

I don’t know about you – but I’d rather leave the ash burning to my vamps. Not that I would actually do that to any of them – oh, wait.

But the point is this, the newest mini-story that I was working on has become a full out story. I’m not sure at this point if it will be full out for me (usually around 85K) so I’m setting the bar low for the time being until I get a better sense of things. I do know that I certainly want to spend some time with the handful of characters I’ve created for this one and am really excited and interested in seeing where this will go.