My current project, A Hunger, is going well. I've just crossed the targeted halfway point. Sadly, there's no way I'll get it done in 12 months (July 2 being the anniversary of its start). Considering I wrote zero from August 1 through December 28, 2008, perhaps I can cut those lost months from my target and give myself new, cheated hope.
I feel strongly about my protagonist, the force that makes any story go (it's in plotting that I have a tougher time), and I offer a little here:
Carter A. Waterman, Jr. is a Worcester County kid with a penchant for bad dreams. His teenage years are wrought with prophetic (not to mention timely) dreams which hint at deeper meanings. Carter's life is thrown into flux when, on a vacation to Maine, he spots an attractive young sunbather who bears an eerie resemblance to his girlfriend back home.
Feelings of danger persist and in following the sunbather, Carter comes in contact with a fortune teller with a gift. She "sees" and tells of a horrible version of Carter's future.
But why, a year later, is Carter in the sights of an immigrant drug dealer, recently released from a Maine state prison? And what is the fortune teller's role in the murders that begin to proliferate whenever Carter returns to Maine - to the beach front vacation spot where it all began?
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