This is a complete mess, It's a blatant plagiarism of Robert E Howard's "Black Canaan," which I think it's one of Howard's most effective horrors but honestly the racism bothers even me (and I'm pretty slack about old pulp stories; I mean, I enjoy Fu Manchu and all the White Jungle Queens). Then i thought, how about trying a fan-edit, like those videos where someone edits the three Hobbit movies down to one or changes the entire score of a film? That could be interesting. So I started rewriting "Black Canaan" as if it were mine and I was trying to please an editor.
Bur I don't like writing in first person, either. So I angled the viewpoint. Then characters from my old Midnight War universe started sneaking in. Suddenly it was a team-up of the Brimstone Kid and Tom Pinto. Where was this even going??!! When I was finished, I had no idea what had been written but I had put too much time into it to discard the whole thing, Call it a fan-edit, or a pastiche or a shameless rip-off.
But in a guilty pleasure way, it was fun. I might
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This is a complete mess, It's a blatant plagiarism of Robert E Howard's "Black Canaan," which I think it's one of Howard's most effective horrors but honestly the racism bothers even me (and I'm pretty slack about old pulp stories; I mean, I enjoy Fu Manchu and all the White Jungle Queens). Then i thought, how about trying a fan-edit, like those videos where someone edits the three Hobbit movies down to one or changes the entire score of a film? That could be interesting. So I started rewriting "Black Canaan" as if it were mine and I was trying to please an editor.
Bur I don't like writing in first person, either. So I angled the viewpoint. Then characters from my old Midnight War universe started sneaking in. Suddenly it was a team-up of the Brimstone Kid and Tom Pinto. Where was this even going??!! When I was finished, I had no idea what had been written but I had put too much time into it to discard the whole thing, Call it a fan-edit, or a pastiche or a shameless rip-off.
But in a guilty pleasure way, it was fun. I might ( ... )
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