Well, I just realized that my typed draft of
Tales of Genocide is gone now. The computer I typed it on died and I didn't put it on any sort of jump drive or disc. D:
Of course, I write everything by hand first [turns out to be a Godsend of a habit!
] Not that I'd finished typing the draft, or writing it for that matter, yet. In any case, it's original title was
Tales of Genocide on Tour . I had a title before I even had a set plot; I just knew I wanted to write a good vampire story, I needed a good title, and that came to mind. Of course, right off hand I had been thinking of writing it in the present time and having horrible vamp incidents happen to several bands whilst on tour. Pretty soon a totally different (and much better) idea came to my mind and I took the "On Tour" part off because it no longer fit. I may or may not tweak the title more. (We'll just see eventually when I get the darned thing posted here.)
Can't Finish What You Started was never called anything different, but it did get a bit of a rewrite on the ending than what I was originally going to go with. The other guys from Green Day weren't going to appear at all, but I decided I really wanted them to somehow and it helped because I really didn't have a great ending for Billie anyway. (I think I had finally settled and said he'd bum a ride with MCR or something
) So, by adding them in, I helped give Billie a better sort of ending to the story. He got to drive away with his friends, and I got to do a quick little (fluffy, I'll admit it.) scene with the whole band. It was a bit of a win-win.