Five Challenges I Faced in The Botanist.

I think every story you write comes with its own inherent challenges. Here are a few I dealt with in my upcoming short story, The Botanist:

1. Accurately depicting the ways PTSD can affect someone.
2. Keeping a realistic pace for the romance while staying within the confines of a short story.
3. Maintaining a balance between a forceful personality and a slightly more mellow one.
4. Finding the right obscure plants that might be on a botanist’s  bucket list. (As someone who has terrible allergies, I tend to avoid all things flora lol).
5. Fleshing out two characters in a short space and working to make readers want to know more about them–and their friends.

All I can say is.

Writing is hard lol.