So,
deep_time, remember that story I was working on...
OK, a long time ago"? Here it is:
The Frozen Ground.
Haven't seen the film yet, and I had very different (and completely fictional) characters, but the basic plot matches this summary pretty closely. Just, you know...a few years too late.
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Even with "high concept" stuff that sounds very specific (time traveling serial killer, girl on the brink of death watches her family and has to make decisions about whether to come back, etc) has been done over and over. What makes it special and different is what you, as the author, bring to it.
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I came to the same conclusion (stop worrying and write the thing) early this morning. I had stepped away from that story because I still wasn't certain of the direction in which I wanted to take it. But as I thought about it this morning, I realized that whenever I thought back on it, it was to the serial killer/monster in the woods angle. The sucker punch I felt realizing the story was "taken" reinforced that. But you're right...again, totally different characters with totally different motivations.
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I think the sucker punch comes from the internal heckler though, so I try to dismiss it. Like, "See, you're not as original as you think!" Gotta punch the heckler right back, tell it it's wrong, and get back to work.
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