I should hire a marketer….

ShapelessI’d probably drive an agent crazy. “We need pictures of you.”   Me: “Nope.”   “You need to be more outgoing, market yourself more.”  Me: “Nope.”  “Are you even alive?”  Me: “Maybe.”  🙂

I had a few rough spots on Shapeless, but we are cruising now. The scary thing when it’s all done will be the length. I’m 76K words in now, and I’d say halfway done through Act III. The rest of the novel is done in my head. Four, maybe five more scenes, and it’s all done.  I’m thinking that will put it close to 100K words, which is FAR more than I thought this novel would be. May end up having to do some trimming before release. I just had a fun time writing about the two main characters. It kind of snowballed.

The challenges have all come from writing something that isn’t exactly common. Not to say shape-shifting hasn’t been done before, but I’m trying to be very concise in describing what is happening when the main character alters shape. In writing about a vampire, I can say “vampire” and “fangs”, and a picture is already painted. I don’t have to go into the details of the fangs, or the origins of the word vampire. I’m sure this is where some of this novel’s length has come from.

I’ve been thinking about a sample, but to be honest I’m not sure what part to use. I don’t want to spoil plot points, and I certainly don’t want to bore readers with dialog between two new characters. But I’ll see if I can come up with something.