Vamp out West

I finally managed to type "THE END" under the first draft of the current vamp story. The writing of it has been interrupted by work and other things getting in the way, together with a serious re-write of the first half. Still, I'm glad it has got this far.

It is still very obviously first draft. The material I wrote this evening gets the story to the end but needs to be reworked into something readable, with subtle menace and overt weirdness. I'll give it a couple of days then come back to it with a fresh eye. What I expect to happen is that it will be shorn of redundant clauses, phrases and sentences and generally tidied up. Some sections will be expanded with detail and the tone of the whole piece will be harmonised. Finally, now that I know where the story is going, I can make the whole thing look like it is what I always intended to do.

At that point, my patient first readers can cast an eye over it.