Good evening. I apologize to my readers for this late posting. It has been quite the weekend. For more details, see my Coffee with David posting that was also done tonight.

At the time of this posting I find myself struggling on my approach to writing “The Last Friend.” My struggle is over the genre of the story. In this story there are two main characters. One is the Angel of Death and the other is the person whom he must take into death. As I look at this story, the idea of genre changes depending on whose point of view I write this from.

While this is a slightly irksome issue for me, it is also a good one to have. I was told or I read a piece of advice somewhere about writing that said the best antagonist are the ones that you could retell the story and make the protagonist. That is the true issue I am wrestling with. If I write “The Last Friend” from the point of view of one character, it is a horror story. If I write it from the other, it is a fantasy. If this story was to be a long short story or a novella, I would write the story with a shifting point of view. But, this story is to only be 2000 words. That is not a long short story by any stretch of the imagination.

There is another story I heard once about Michelangelo. For weeks he sat and stared at a huge piece of marble. His patron, who had commissioned a sculpture from him, would ask him what he was doing. He great artist replied that he was sculpting. He had not picked up the chisel or the hammer. He only sat there and sat there. He sat until finally he knew exactly what it was he wanted. I can fully understand why. While I may not be carving the great statue of David, I can not put ink to paper on this story until I know what it is I want to do.

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