Eek!
I saw something scary on the national news today. About six months ago, a children's doctor went missing. His body has just been found--in a quarry near the summit of Coniston Old Man, a mountain in the Lake District.
Okay, so here's the scary part for me. Five months ago, my family and I went on holiday in the Lake District. We climbed the west path up the Old Man towards Goat's Water and Dow Crag ... and guess what; that quarry was about ten metres north of the path we were on. I remember my dad saying something like 'Why don't we go and check out that quarry?' Amber, whose tail was between her legs at that point, gave him a dour look and collapsed in the mud. She refused to go a paw further, so we just went on up to Goat's Water and back down again.
But ... what if we had gone to look at that slate quarry? It's rather sickening.
On the writing front, I've passed the 75K mark, and have just this minute put the finishing touches to the chapter entitled THE ELUSIVE ANSWER. The "single answer to all the riddles" (as the eloquent Colonel Foyle calls it) has already been revealed to the readers, although it's still not clear how all the threads tie in together. Never fear, dear readers; all will be revealed, but you'll have to wait until the chapter NIGHT TERRORS to fully understand. Muahahaha. My technique in this case is to show the readers who the KGB agent is (it's Major Wheatley), then have them guessing how he could possibly be responsible for all the other disasters at Cold Witness. Believe me, the readers will be in for one hell of a surprise when they come to that chapter.
I've also put a snippet of Cold Witness up on the Forward Motion "Snippets" board. It's a creepy final scene to the chapter SOMETHING'S DOWN THERE, where Major Wheatley goes down into his secret bunker to work on the Ethereal Sword psychotronic weapon. There's some pretty scary description, mostly internal thoughts from Wheatley's POV. Read it ... if you dare!
I saw something scary on the national news today. About six months ago, a children's doctor went missing. His body has just been found--in a quarry near the summit of Coniston Old Man, a mountain in the Lake District.
Okay, so here's the scary part for me. Five months ago, my family and I went on holiday in the Lake District. We climbed the west path up the Old Man towards Goat's Water and Dow Crag ... and guess what; that quarry was about ten metres north of the path we were on. I remember my dad saying something like 'Why don't we go and check out that quarry?' Amber, whose tail was between her legs at that point, gave him a dour look and collapsed in the mud. She refused to go a paw further, so we just went on up to Goat's Water and back down again.
But ... what if we had gone to look at that slate quarry? It's rather sickening.
On the writing front, I've passed the 75K mark, and have just this minute put the finishing touches to the chapter entitled THE ELUSIVE ANSWER. The "single answer to all the riddles" (as the eloquent Colonel Foyle calls it) has already been revealed to the readers, although it's still not clear how all the threads tie in together. Never fear, dear readers; all will be revealed, but you'll have to wait until the chapter NIGHT TERRORS to fully understand. Muahahaha. My technique in this case is to show the readers who the KGB agent is (it's Major Wheatley), then have them guessing how he could possibly be responsible for all the other disasters at Cold Witness. Believe me, the readers will be in for one hell of a surprise when they come to that chapter.
I've also put a snippet of Cold Witness up on the Forward Motion "Snippets" board. It's a creepy final scene to the chapter SOMETHING'S DOWN THERE, where Major Wheatley goes down into his secret bunker to work on the Ethereal Sword psychotronic weapon. There's some pretty scary description, mostly internal thoughts from Wheatley's POV. Read it ... if you dare!
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