[Stylist] I'd appreciate some thoughts

[Vejas Vasiliauskas]

Hi Chris, 
Thanks so much for taking the time to read this, and for your honest feedback. 
I think you might be right, as I was considering pulling the plug on it and perhaps trying something else. I think I still want to give the contest a try, even if gothic writing isn't natural for me. 
Good luck on your own story. Maybe if you take a break from it and come back to it, it will be easier to revise and continue. 
Vejas 

> On 9 Oct 2019, at 08:56, Chris Kuell via Stylist <stylist at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Hey Vejas,
> 
> Here are my thoughts on your story.
> 
> Sorry, but I'd pull the plug on this one. 
> Writing a good story about a character with multiple personality disorder,
> or any variation of a psychopath, is very, very difficult to pull off. Fight
> Club comes to mind, and I imagine Stephen King might have tried to tackle
> it. I commend you for trying, but in my opinion (others may differ) I don't
> think it's working well here.
> 
> Sometimes stories that seem great in your mind don't translate well when you
> actually write them. In fact, I'm thinking of pulling the plug on the story
> I'm currently working on, and I've already written over 4,000 words. My
> story idea is a lonely, socially phobic woman has difficulty operating in
> the world, but when she's working, doing hair and make-up for dead people in
> a funeral home, she opens up and talks about her life and her feelings to
> the corpses. Weird, yes, but I thought I could turn it into a good story.
> But honestly, I don't think it's working. I might finish it and try to fix
> it, or I might just file it away in the undone folder.
> 
> That's just the way it goes sometimes.
> 
> Chris
> 
> 
> 
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