A bit of bitching

I think part of my problem with "Splintered Soul" is that the idea (or maybe not so much the idea as the setting and establishment thereof) is, almost, too large/detailed/something for a short story. Okay, too large for a short story under 4,000 words, anyway. It feels to me like it'd sit better at about 15,000 with a few more scenes and a bit more time for me to get the theme across. But I don't really want to commit 15,000 words to it at this particular time, thanks. Actually, as with a lot of things, I'm starting to get an inkling about taking this idea to a film script format, but if I was going to do that I'd need to expand on the idea and come up with some more plot threads - something that sounds really fun, but that isn't exactly part of the original challenge that was laid down.

In short, I want to get at least a 1,500 word (or so) piece of this story off my chest in short story form by the end of the month. Which, I hate to say it, might require me to scrap the re-write I have and go with my original re-write idea from a million years ago (before it was ever fully finished), which was to take and expand on a single scene from the course of events, hinting at just enough surrounding info for the audience to be able to follow along.

Maybe. Bleh.

Okay, enough fucking around: I'm going to finish it tonight (EDIT 6:45AM - Yeah, yeah, watch me eat my words, now.) I have no idea what it'll look like at that point, but by golly it'll be finished, and then I can look at where I want to take it for the long haul.