
The story of the story of my Work in Progress (WIP) is a bit of a story. Got that?
Sigh.
OK, back to the beginning.
In late 2016 I wrote a stand alone character sketch of a local oddball (not real! fictional). Later I added a little to it and brought the idea of “the old mill” into the story. In the spring to early summer of 2017, I wrote and posted a serialized novel, The Old Mill, starting with those stories. This was a very rough draft of a story, as I posted each chapter the day that I wrote them. The good news was that I used story ideas that had been kicking around in my skull for years.
At the end of 2018, I decided I wanted to sharpen it up and release it by the summer of 2019. I did a lot of rewriting and drafting, and was pretty much done by late August 2019. I didn’t reach my goal, but having it out in the late fall was very doable.
Through the autumn of 2019 I posted teasers, sketches, and even a big chunk of one of the chapters of the reworked work.
But it was never published.
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