Update Link: Warning Shots – Part 5
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You know, Jason and Elizabeth are really annoying, and let me explain why. I had a plan for this story. Short little episodes that sort of slip in and out of Elizabeth’s first year of college and depict the growing gap in the Liz & Lucky relationship (how does Liz handle the obvious problems when she doesn’t have the added pressure of a miracle returning to her?).

And I planned to just write the VDay episode and just move on to the Spring Break. That’s the outline. But something funny happened between outlining the dialogue and actually writing it (it happened in Chain Reaction too) something always happens in the transformation. Sometimes it fits exactly what you planned, and then other times — you just have to stop and either delete so ir fits your plans or see what happens.

This part and the next planned is me seeing what happens on this little detour for Warning Shots. Does it end up being a detour or a complete derailment? I guess we’ll find out 😛

When I write Flash Fiction, I always come up with at least the plot sketch for the first half of the story to at least give me something to write towards, then I let the feedback and the story itself shape the rest of it. So I always write the actual prose during the timed 60 minutes, but I always have a plan for what I want to do. It’s part of the reason I can write between 2500-3500 words in an hour. If I were just pantsing it, parts would be half as long, lol.  If you’re curious, here’s what that angsty Liason breakup scene in Part 7 of Chain Reaction looked like before I wrote it:

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