Expect the unexpected

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One of the best things about writing is when the story takes a totally unexpected turn.  One of the most terrifying things about writing is when the story takes a totally unexpected turn.  The story I’m writing right now is not the story I intended to write.  Maybe that will be great!  Maybe that will be horrible!  No way to know without pushing through.

As I push through, have a passage from today’s work:

Again Tom was silent, although this time because he was working his jaw, trying to come up with an answer that was both truthful and put him in a favorable light. He was fast discovering that those two things were, in this instance, mutually exclusive.

Published by eileenmaksym

Eileen Maksym studied philosophy at Yale and theology at Boston College, and now uses both to write science fiction. Currently she is an academic nomad, following her astrophysicist husband around the world, two kids in tow. When not writing or kid wrangling, Eileen is a hopeless fangirl. She can be found on Twitter (@eileenmaksym) squeeing over her favorite shows, most of which involve famous detectives, dashing time travelers, and creatures that are never, ever referred to as zombies.

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