Tag: outtakes

  • The Struggle for Survival: Andre’s Journey Through Poverty

    The Struggle for Survival: Andre’s Journey Through Poverty

    Author’s note: This was the original opening, but my editor, Caprice Hokstad, recommended a rewrite. The published chapter one is much stronger, but this was a good chapter (just not the best) and thought I’d share it with you. Chapter 1 Eighteen-year-old Andre Collinger ripped open the thick plastic bag and jerked it open, ignoring…

  • Rax quits the team

    Rax quits the team

    OUTTAKES I realized as I developed characters, I literally had hundreds of scenes written just to get to know them. These scenes would never be used in any published work, but it seems wasteful just to have them saved in a file unread, except by me. So, I plan to publish them here on my…