My follow-up story to The Doral is coming along. I have finished the first draft and it is much longer than I had originally planned, over 13,000 words. That isn't quite in novella length but it is a more extensive and detailed work than I'd first imagined.
It MAY be the last story of such a violent nature that I write. I feel like it's akin to Peter Jackson beginning his career with Bad Taste, or Shakespeare starting with Titus Andronicus, which I've heard referred to as the Bard's "Quentin Tarantino period." I would like to move on to a less horrific type of story, perhaps still with violence, gore, and rape, but not to such a sustained deluge of brutailty.
I plan to take a few days to edit before I post the story. If anyone would like to see the rough draft and is willing to give constructive feedback, let me know, and I'll send an advance version.
