Completing a dormant story
Going back to Omaha
Back in my first days on Medium I began publishing a story about Omaha Beach and D-Day, chapter by chapter.
A complex story, wrapped up in a modern-day reunion tale featuring my character Carrie Watson, I got into a plot hole near the end and set it aside for a few days. Those days turned into weeks, months, years.
I finally found a solution, polished up the existing chapters, and now I’m just a few days away from publishing the whole thing as a novella.
As part of the Amazon process I’ll be removing the original chapters from Medium.
So be advised that this is the last chance to read that version. In particular, the “Milkmaid” chapter has had to be modified a little because I’m advised that it crosses a line that Amazon won’t accept. I don’t think that technically it ventures into that area, but I’ve changed it, just to make sure.
Overall, I’m quite pleased with how it has all turned out. Based on my experiences with a battlefield tour company early on in my career, I gained some good background with the history but, Dear Lord, the rabbit holes of research I had to burrow down to get the details right.
Or, if not right, know well enough that I could obscure some of the precise locations and events for the purposes of the story.
More on this later. I took on this project as a way of giving myself a break from my cosy mystery/writing group Carrie Watson novel pair that I’m supposed to be working on at full speed.
I’ll be back on that in a few days.
Britni