{"id":1020,"date":"2014-10-31T07:14:18","date_gmt":"2014-10-31T15:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/biz141.inmotionhosting.com\/~akweko6\/sacollins.com\/wp\/?p=1020"},"modified":"2014-10-31T10:18:07","modified_gmt":"2014-10-31T18:18:07","slug":"happy-halloween-all-its-all-about-the-weres-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sacollins.com\/blog-wp\/?p=1020","title":{"rendered":"Happy Halloween All! It’s all about the Were’s today…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Happy Halloween All! It’s all about the Weres today…<\/span><\/h1>\n

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\"That<\/a>

That be WERES in them thar hills! (And that’s a very good thing!)<\/p><\/div>\n

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I am ready and rarin’ to go with my gay werewolf story set in a fictitious town of Sparrow’s Hollow, West VA. It sort of came to me (as most of my stories do) as I signed up for the Nanowrimo<\/a> event. Gay weres are not a new thing in the M\/M (gay lit fic) genre. There are literally TONS of them out there. But I wanted to play with it a bit myself. I love being spooked. I love the thrill of not knowing but fearing it beyond all measure of what’s right around that next corner! EEEKS!<\/p>\n

I am totally pantsing<\/strong><\/em><\/span> it…<\/p>\n

What the hell is pantsing<\/em>, you ask?<\/p>\n

It means while I know the characters, the arc and the general setting, I don’t have a planned outline. I don’t have everything mapped out to the n<\/em>th degree. I have a feel for what I am going to do and I am just gonna sit down and hammer it all out. One. Word. At. A. Time. I am literally and physically flying by the “seat of my pants…”<\/p>\n

Pantsing it…<\/em><\/p>\n

I think it’ll be scary writing it from that perspective alone.<\/p>\n

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\"Am<\/a>

Am feelin’ the love of the lycan sort today! HOWL y’all!<\/p><\/div>\n

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And I’ve got something that is really quite different in my world of weres… I wanted something new to write about if I was going to take it on. I think it’s rather exciting and could reset the genre if I can do it right. \u00a0We’ll see. Don’t want to write too much about it until it starts tomorrow.<\/p>\n

BUT, what I will say, is that while I am gonna be writing this I will be blogging about the experience too. I don’t know what I’ve bitten into, but it is gonna be epic in its own way, I can just tell. And weres are all about the biting, and the rutting, and the feeding, right?<\/p>\n

So on this All Hallows Eve, I’ll just cross my fingers (after I’ve completed the werewolf makeup on the granddaughter for trick or treating) and plunge in at midnight tonight!<\/p>\n

It’s gonna be EPIC!<\/p>\n

Thar be wolves in them thar hills! \u00a0(and that’s a VERY good thing!)<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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