Dang, another deadline missed!

I like to take part in the Insecure Writer’s Support Group writing prompt on the first Wednesday of each month, but if you check the date on this you will see…yup, as they say, ‘A day late (2) and a dollar short.’

So without further delay…the prompt,

“Have you ever written a piece that became a form, or even a genre, you hadn’t planned on writing in? Or do you choose a form/genre in advance?“

I’m kind of ‘free-style’ in my writing as I often think I know where the story is going, but it sometimes takes me to unexpected places and with details I’m not expecting. “Oh, it’ll be one story,” morphs into a whole world with future stories and back stories and side-stories and where will it end?

I thought I started out writing fantasy, but by a few quirks of ‘fate’ the series has really turned into sci/fi-fantasy…darn how did that happen? Partly it happened because my husband wanted to write a sci-fi book but use a couple of my fantasy characters…well why not. It’s all words and they can be anything I(we?) want them to be. And partly it happened because…world-building/backstory…how did we/they get here? Where do you call a stop to what happened before the story you’ve just written. I guess that question of motives (isn’t that what a backstory is setting even if it is generations back?) intrigues me and then I get lost.

Okay, stop already.