I’ve scratched out another 1000-plus word scene to move the story further. I’m filling in some gaps that are separating several scenes I have already written to these opening scenes I am using to set the stage and send our hero off on an adventure.
Alex thought himself a bit of a tracker; for a good reason, he could track better than anyone else in the valley with a natural ease and surety that few could match. When Stu Wellington suggested he and Mitch keep an eye out for any signs of little Billy Watkins, Alex took that up as a challenge.
In the scene “The Swamp At The Gateway.”
Interestingly enough, these opening scenes I have hinted at here are starting to take the stories around Alexandre Bellweather, a young woods guide, or some may say “ranger,” in a slightly different direction than I originally envisioned—a good approach, just not exactly how I had initially imagined the story would begin.
If you follow me as @Reistache on Twitter, you might have seen a reference to “the gateway” in my #dungeon23 entry for today (January 18, 2023), but you will have to gain access to the novel “The Bellweather Chronicles” to read how a swamp is involved.