It’s morning and the sun is shining here in New Brunswick. I’ll be on the deck all morning, continuing the read on the current draft of my novel, On The Sly.
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So far, it’s pretty good. A bit rushed though. I’ll need to slow the pace just a touch. And, because of all the rearrangements of the chapters, the details don’t flow well. But, I’m happy with the storyline and I haven’t found any real plot holes yet.
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For those of you who don’t know, I started On The Sly as a serial killer thriller with multiple POVs. Fell in love with my MC, Sylvia, and about halfway through decided I’d want to write a mystery series featuring her.
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Three problems arose immediately.
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First, for my MC to be the lead super sleuth, I had to dump the homicide detective’s POV scenes. I could still tell the scenes, but now from Sylvia’s viewpoint.
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Second, if I started the series with a serial killer, where would I go after that for the subsequent books? There are a few things that top serial killers, but not many. So I dropped that and focused on just one killing.
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Third, a bonafide Mystery is told completely different than a Thriller. That meant a lot of chapter shifting.
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So, there have been MULTIPLE drafts of this novel. Some stories are just like that.
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You can’t be a writer and be impatient.
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Wendy L. Koenig 