Half way for Echo isn't anything to underestimate! Maybe if you work on it a little before camp, camp'll even be the completion of its first draft! Do you usually aim for 50k?
How do you brainstorm/outline/regroup? Do you use a digital document? Pen and paper? I love seeing how other people go about it, if you'd be willing to share the process!
Oooooooooh snap! Have you started that piece already? I would absolutely love to read it! Will you be leaving red herrings so the reader can piece it together before/while the Alpha and deputy do? Or is it more of a surprise twist at the end? Or a mix of both, where the clues are subtle and the reader is so shocked they re-read it again and catch all the red herrings and go "OOOOOOOHSNAP".
How long is that piece (or how long do you plan for it to be, in general)? Novel-length? Short story? Somewhere in between?
Also, how do mates work for your werewolves in that piece? Is it more of a biological obligation? Or...? Definitely interested in hearing how you tackled that!
The 'sickness' in my piece is actually the basis of my story. Since the late 50's and humanity's interest in putting stuff on the moon, the werewolves have been getting sick in the way I described - transformations out of sync, more painful, more dangerous because more of the animal mind takes over. And the more humanity puts things on the moon (the first men on the moon, more probes), the sicker the werewolves become - though it tends to affect newer generations in the pack I'm focusing on.
The story starts where humanity is finalising a colonisation project for the moon, which the werewolves strongly oppose. It's a society where the majority of humans don't know about werewolves to keep panic down, though. The Alpha is a politician (thinking of changing it to influential journalist in the second draft) who is trying to convince the people of the States to place funding elsewhere, all diplomatic, all while secretly ordering his pack to sabotage the mission by stealing/destroying pieces/equipment. Their last resort is to just find a way to put a werewolf on the shuttle with the colonisers so that everyone on the shuttle dies and the mission is never completed. It's a last resort, and they don't want to do it, but the pack's survival depends on it.
(...they think. << cx I've got a twist planned.)
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