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Writing Satan’s Cauldron
November’s short is called Satan’s Cauldron and let me tell you, it turned out to be quite a bitch to write. You see, this time I decided to outline it and well, I didn’t much like it. In fact, I almost trashed it and started writing something else. I ended up using the basic premise of the outline as a foundation for it and freestyled the rest. What I actually ended up with is nowhere near what I had outlined. As I said in a previous post, it took me over four hours to write whereas it usually takes me only two. Suffice it to say, I won’t be outlining any more shorts from hereon out. I have to put in another weekend of overtime – a bummer, but it’s money – … Read entire article »
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