Writer's Journal: Slow week, as I was on the road this weekend. Currently drafting The Adjusters #25, even though I don't really have #23 and only parts of #24 written. But that's where the inspiration is drawing me, so who am I to argue?
A couple of stories have caught my eyes this last week, both on Storiesonline.
Written by POL, we have Of Drugs, Blackmail, and Seduction: "For monetary profit, an unscrupulous man uses any means to seduce and then sexually use the wife and daughter of a decent man." A nicely structured story, with a beginning, middle, and end, and a clear narrative line. And the blackmail in the story is somewhat more thought out than typical: none of that neighbor-finds-incriminating-evidence-and-turns-girl-into-a-slut clichés—not that there's anything wrong with clichés though if the resulting story's hot, in my somewhat myopic opinion!—but an actual plan to get a woman and have one's way with her.
Written by JRyter, we have The Apartment Manager: "Ethan Walker is hired to manage a multi-complex apartment group. His first day on the job, he discovers a secret surveilance system that not only spies on the tenants of all 240 apartments, all their activities are digitally recorded. Ethan becomes addicted to voyeurism. He's attracted to the woman who hired him and soon learns he's not alone in his desire to spy on others." A promising on-going story (currently two chapters out), one that I'm looking forward to see where it goes.
That's what I got for you. Anything interesting you've run across? Feel free to share below in the comments.
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Sunday, September 11, 2011
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