I can’t cheat!

**grrrr**

There are some stories that just seem easier than others. I’ve been doing this for 3 years now and I’ve gotten a little bit of the hang of it. I can generally get a good feel for a story and how involved it’ll be. Yes, I’ve been wrong, but I’m generally pretty close.

I’ve had it pointed out to me by someone who’s been reading for me since before I was published that when I have a difficult time is when I try and “cheat”. In this case, cheating is when I try and short change the characters. There’ve been a few instances where I thought the story was “easy” and that I wouldn’t have to think too hard about it. These stories have been the ones that I’ve had the most trouble with. My friend points out that it’s because, in these cases, I try not to delve too deep into what they’re thinking or feeling and I rush to the end. In doing so, I skip over important parts, thus making the end make less sense. And I never get to the end anyway because my normal sense of the story stops dead and I can’t figure out how to proceed.

So, I need to stop cheating. I do better when I don’t and things go more quickly. I put in chapters that show the character development rather than just those that progress the story. Of course, for me, that’s not true. Anything that shows the character development IS a scene that progresses the story because my stories are all about characters. Really. There’s not one of my books where the situation made the story. it’s always been the characters IN the situation that does it.

So, yeah. No more cheating! That’s ok. I like writing about people anyway.

Written by Jet Mykles

Jet is a writer of sexual fantasy with a firm belief that all men are at least partially gay, that vampires are just people with a liquid diet and shapeshifters live on every block.
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