Ticklefanatic15's Writing Journal

It is strange, what patterns you notice in your writing after a little while. My second draft of Window of Opportunity has the ticklee, Megan, bantering with her taller roommate Katy as the two are on the way to a party, with Katy threatening to tell the people there that Megan is ticklish if the latter does not lay off the sass. The Janitor's Closet had Ashley teasing her tall friend Sibyl about work, then getting tickled in retaliation. It makes me wonder if I have a thing for short sassy girls being tickled by taller ones, or if it just happens to be a convenient way for getting the reader engaged early on in both stories. I think the latter, because I generally do not go for stories with female 'lers, but perhaps this scenario is the exception.

I experimented a little with the opening to the story and the order the characters are introduced in; that was the area I felt was weakest in the first draft, and I am much more happy with it now. I've also added a detail that becomes important towards the middle of the story, and a little symbolism (just a sentence, nothing too obtrusive). Hopefully that makes the story a little deeper without getting in the reader's way; you want the surface layer to be just as satisfying as the ones underneath it.

Second draft word count: 276. Goal: 5000. Progress: ~5%.