Writing with relish

A month ago, the Chicago Writers Association cooked up an idea to write a serialized novel, with each chapter being written by a different member.

Cool idea, right?

Yeah, unless you draw the short straw and get stuck with the unenviable task of writing the first chapter.

That job, as fate would have it, fell upon me.

In conceptualizing the opening to this story, I set out to accomplish three things:

1. Make it a story that other writers could relate to;
2. Make it ooze Chicago; and
3. Make it fun.

        CHAR DOGI hope that I achieved all of those goals. Read it and decide for yourself. The first five chapters of Char Dog are now online exclusively at chicagowrites.org. The author of Chapter 1 is, of course, me. Let me know what you think? Tasty? Undigestable?

While stopping in at chicagowrites, also check out part 1 of my interview with the fabulous Chicagoland mystery author Libby Fischer Hellman.