I wrote a story two and a half years ago that I posted before the Presidential election. A tale about a 26 year old farmer that runs for Congress in the 10th Congressional District of North Carolina. When Trump was elected, the storyline took a nose dive.
I was as disappointed for the fate of the country as I was for my own tale.
The story had a great deal going for it. Strong characters, timely politics, an interesting hook.
I reread it time and again looking for redemption.
Then it hit me.
The timeline is all wrong. It has more possibilities now than it did then. A tale where character triumphs over money and an intrenched political machine.
Time for a rewrite.
DOES THIS SOUND FAMILIAR TO ANY OF YOU? Ever deliver a radical rewrite to any tale you wrote? Did the result please?
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.A few months ago I rewrote a story I'd done about 15 years before and never finished. It took quite some doing because I had to adapt a story of a herd of beasts 65 million years ago who find themselves engulfed by the aftermath of that meteor, to a post-Trump apocalyptic tale about a group of roving humans who had mostly lost the power of speech and individual thought and almost turned into animals and following their "strong" leader no matter what he did or told them do. It went down a bit of a treat with my writers group and was included in an analogy we self-published at the end of last year.
Garbonza
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Mar 20, 2019
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@Lincoln55 It must be phraseology from Ye Olde England?Scotland -- I live in New Zealand which is largely made up of those two ancestral/cultural groups, and this has rubbed off on me in the almost 59 years since we left the States. It means they liked it because it was a treat -- out of the ordinary. Picking up local jargon was a matter of survival for quite a few years. Our first year my sister was punished for swearing (cursing) at school for referring to her "bloody" nose -- after some kids beat her up for being American. It was dangerous to say "I'll fill you in!" when trying to enlighten someone, because it meant "I'll sort you out!", and on and on...