So, I’m working on outlining Late Shift. I remember I created this group to focus on making that story, and now I’m circling back. Here’s a snippet of the story, it may be a little uneventful – but it’s the beginning for the main character of the entire story.

late shift outline snippet

Louise –
It’s a murky, snowy February morning. The sun is peeking through the gray sky, shining orange light around the horizon and lightly melting the snow that had set in over the winter. Her alarm didn’t go off, probably set to the wrong time. What wakes her up is knocks on the door, her roommate, Jade, waking her up. Jade is yelling through the door, they’re late for patrol. She gets out of bed, groggily stretching as we see her room fully. We learn quite a bit about her through the decor – an acoustic guitar on the floor, Polaroids of her and a familiar face on most of them. Caiman, who she credits in the pictures – written in sharpie: dad. On the calendar, we see that they have a movie night on Saturday, but he’s not listed as “dad”, but by his first name. She slips on her outfit, salmon jacket, green undershirt. She rubbed her eyes, stepping over to the door. Jade stood there with two travel mugs, filled with coffee. They talk briefly about patrol – and in direct polarization of previous drafts, Louise welcomes her to come along. Jade suggests she bring her guitar. Louise takes the job seriously, doesn’t want to do anything not related to killing Twigs and securing the westside perimeter. Jade grabs it anyways, and they walk downstairs to Louise’s truck. Louise grabs warmer jackets for the duo, and they get inside the vehicle.

regurgitated art I made in sn awhile back