I usually have a Christmas story posted by now.
In fact, I had one completed to the first draft stage and reading for editing and review.
It was a first for me – a murder mystery about the mysterious death of a family patriarch on Christmas Eve.
Then on the 22nd of December, my wife’s father, the patriarch of her family, passed away at the age of 89.
Suddenly that murder mystery seemed in poor taste.
I will edit and refine it to be a good Christmas story for next year.
On the 23rd, I decided to attempt to write another story for this year with the goal of having it completed by New Years Eve.
I am happy to report that I finished the first draft around 9pm on New Year’s Eve.
And I realized that it was so rough that I couldn’t possibly post it until it went through some significant editing.
Then the thought occurred to me, “What if I shared it in the context of explaining the writing process?”
With that in mind, I am creating a new page on this site to go through the writing process with you, the reader and writer in hopes that you may be encouraged to go through the process for your ideas.
You will find that page here.
If you don’t want to see how terrible my unedited writing can be, stick around.
As I complete each step of the process, I will post the successive drafts.
Eventually, I will post a decent final draft.
And then I’ll move on to the next project…
Solano Writing 