While the editor is still working on Episode 1 and I on Episode 2, I have received some comments that look to rewriting parts of the first episode. If you have read my last Coffee with David entry, you will have seen that I acknowledge difficulties in writing romance. While Dark Medicine is a Gothic Horror, it does have romantic entanglements in it. These relationships are not as strong as I would like them to be.

As a result, I am delaying the release of the other web serials I am working on to get Dark Medicine where I want it to be. Further, there is a writers conference that I am attending next weekend and I will be taking a few of the workshops on romance writing. I hope to come out of that with some tips that will improve Dark Medicine.

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After a long review of the rough draft of Dark Medicine and seeing where things didn’t work, I am happy to announce that I have Series 1 (or is that season 1?) in rough draft form. I am currently breaking it up into episodes and editing them. The approximate length of each episode should be 5000 words.

The editing of this draft also breathes new life into the story and I think offers the opportunity to bridge the plot better than the original novel. As you may have read in earlier posts, Dark Medicine has an “army” of characters, which actually lead to the original plot line’s collapse. In the web serial version, it will be an enrichment.

Thank you for reading and please visit www.davidalanlucas.com for more articles, blogs, poetry, and stories that I write.