Mutation's Journey

     If you're reading this, most likely you're one of my friends who has had to hear all about Mutation from the moment it was completed.  That means you probably also know that I failed to find a publishing company/agent to get  ahold of Mutation and get it published.  Becuase of that, I have begun revamping Mutation in the hopes that by the end of the summer it will be more polished and more worthy of getting published as an actual novel.
     Like most things, Mutation never started out as what it has become.  My initial idea was to have a simple story of two kids surviving in a zombie apocalypse, eventually finding a scientific facility where the disease originated, and then discovering the cure to save humanity.  Cheesy? Yes.  Already done?  Definitely.  Of course, I didn't want to write something that was lame or had already been written to death, so as you would expect Mutation took a turn towards the more surreal.  I took influence from both the Left 4 Dead gaming franchise and Dante's Inferno and created the various mutants, put together a new cause for the infection, and developed how the two main characters - Eric and Kate - dealt with it.  The story also changed from 3rd person perspective to 1st person, with each part having a different character telling the story.
     How the story ended also took a different turn.  It probably wasn't the best idea, but I ended up writing the majority of Mutation when I was in a bit of a sour mood about some stuff, and as a result I killed off some of the characters and Mutation took a darker turn than I had anticipated.  In the end I actually like it more than I would have should it not been as dark, though I know some people will disagree with me about whether that was a smart move.
     My revamping of Mutation takes the plotline and makes it a bit more interesting, adding a new beginning and changing how the story is actually told.  The reason is because I have decided that, should Mutation get published, it will be part of a trilogy (kinda, more like the middle story, with a prologue story and an epilogue story coming afterwards) and connecting it to several other ideas for stories I have for later on.  Part 1 is already completed, but that's the easy part; parts 2 and 3 are - and will remain to be - far longer, being the meat of the story.  With luck, it will turn out better than the first draft.  Who knows?  Maybe someday it'll actually get published.

Until next time everyone.  Writr, out.