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Yeah!!!! (and you know this is gonna be a long one)
I'm super excited to do this;
just as much as I'm sure you'll all be to read it. But mostly I'm not because
my family had just gone through a weekend of 24hr stomach bugs that just want to
linger in me for a little while longer. but it seems to me that it's been a
while since I spoke about me, and what and where I'm up to when it comes to all
the lovely books I've been writing.
So I figure this is as good a
time as any to have that chat....
So... I haven't really been up to all that much in the
way of writing in the last couple of month--really, it's been a little before I
went on holidays back in late October, and since then I haven't really been
able to motivate myself. Which sucks all round but also makes me have to write
non-stop next year. And it's mostly why I'm not too worried, because I have no
kids running around me for the majority of the week, yeah!
anyway, so, I haven't gotten my latest finished book
[UnNamed] out into the world yet, so, really, my Brag Page is lying a little
there, though there isn't all that much left--ha, now I'm lying even more. honestly
I haven’t been able to touch it, I think I've done about a 10 pages into the
revisions of it all before it heads out into the world, it's lamn and all, but
I just can't find my steam, in anything. but it's one of the first things that
I'm doing next year, especially since I have just realised that I won’t be able
to do the summer course that I wanted to because my son starts 'big' school
next year and that doesn't start until the first or second (?) of Feb and the
course is in Jan--maybe I'll be able to work something out being as it's only a
3hr course once a week, but....
So I haven't done any of that. Yeah, I'm pathetic.
Okay, next on the list.... I
started to re-write BY MOONLIGHT because I found, when I had a little scan of
the book that it was lacking the other characters true identities and
personalities, mostly because I didn’t have them all so worked out in my brain
until I finished both the books (that was when I decided how many, and who was getting
the new books—so really, the series was more worked out) so I decided that it
needed more defining with them. And I also found that it was very clogged, more
so than I ever realised. So I’m going to add more conversation, in the front
and the background. Pay better attention to the other characters, not that I
didn’t before, but there’s just something... missing.
So I about 14 pages into that,
and the only reason that I stopped it was because of the whole being sick shit,
and other less than eventful activities and then I just couldn’t be bothered
going back to it. But it’s defiantly up there at the top of my fix up list. Though
this one will be so much quicker because the story is full there under my
fingertips, these characters are the most worked out, the world full done—just everything
about this series is done in my mind, other than the fact that I haven’t
written them all, and that’s mostly because I can’t write book 3. I can’t get
into that mind set, can’t set up the people the way I want to, mostly because
of the way I’m going, of the fact that in the first book their relationship is
a secret and it’s meant to come out in this one, but first it’s got to break
apart because of the strain—it’s something I saw a lot with friends and always
rolled my eyes at them for even beginning the relationship, so it’s hard to
take something serious now, when I have never in the past.
But saying this, I’ve actually
jump to book 4 and started up on that one, which, when I get motivated again,
should come along quite quickly since this book has been working and mulling in
the back of my mind since the first and second books.
Um...next....? if I haven’t
told you because this, because of the fact that I’m reading ONE PIECE I have
created a new series about pirates, pushing an old series into a single story
cat and working this one out in its place. I have gotten 2 pages already
written, which is great, I think, I also have motivation at my fingertips that
only takes ‘bout an hour to read (the comic’s) and I have put in a MAKING OF
thing so that I can go through the steps with you. More so it’s so that I have
everything I think about and all that there, waiting for me.
I decided to do it (the Making
Of) because of this blog, and so when I finish the book, and if I get it
published I will actually post the making of for you all to read so you can see
exactly what I do when I start a new book/series
Anyway, I’m really liking it
though I still have a lot of questions I’m yet to answer for myself, like this
point in the making of.....
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6.
(7/Dec)[Re-wrote
first page, ship original to draft] so I’m
going to do this one the hard way. mostly because I really couldn’t be bothered
with all the research that’s going to have to come into this book, my biggest
problem, I’m finding at the moment, is that I don’t know where to put this
book, and that’s something that I really do have to work out.
Mostly because you
need somewhere to put your book, and I’m not saying in a genre, hell, you work
that crap out when it’s done, but it’s the age range that you have to work with
and then around. It’s also, I think, the
most important point in your novel
writing—who are you writing this book for?
Yeah, yeah, I get
the genre thing is important to, but if you think about it, your genre is going
to be pretty simple: romance, fantasy, si-fi, contemporary fiction,
non-fiction. That’s it really, yeah there’s other out there but if you think
about it they all pretty much fall into these categories (and if I’m wrong sue
me) with extras and I find that at the end of the day this point doesn’t really
matter because you’re going to write what you love, or where your brain, you
fingers want you to go, no matter how much you need to have it all laid out
before you actually start writing, you still only got a one way mind when it
comes to the novel you want to write. Yeah, this to can be tweaked and twisted
a bit, but at the end of the day your mind isn’t going to give up, not if you
know, deep down, that this is the
way you want to write it.
But age range?
This is something that can’t change and will sculpt the way you research, the
way you think and the way your novel is written.
Or am I the only
one?
Age is the thing,
people off different generation think different when one says Pirate (I’m using
this, because, well, this is what I’m thinking it one). back in the old days,
and I’m talking older than me, you idea of Pirates where simple, what they
were, gross looking sea dogs that were as tough as nails and harder to sink,
they plundered threw villages and killed all that got in there way—hell, some
that didn’t.
Nowadays.....? I
think pirates is something softer—and I don’t mean the way they look, or even
that they still don’t plunder the sea’s looking for money and killing whoever
whenever, but like vampires, werewolves, there something softer about them,
something more human and understandable. Which alternately is what my pirates
have to be like, simple because the other way doesn’t sell, no one wants to
read about the bad guy winning, right? And yet that’s kinda what it is all
about.
Mine, is going to
be about the underdog, which is what’s really important in this day. The little
guy winning against the big and badder. But this won’t mean that he’s a good
guy—not by a long shot.
And with this in
mind, where should this novel sit, what age range, because, as I’ve said
before, the context isn’t really going to change, but the language will, the
level of violence and the....wenches in toe, will be a lot different if I write
this for a young age group then a older one.
And then that gets
you thinking a little, if I go teens, which is kinda where this will end, being
that I for some reason can’t write for middle grade, so if I write it for
teens, should I just go with the flow and let the age range of my novels rise
with the age of the main kid, because this series of novels is alternately
going to be more a chronicle type thing of the kids life than anything else.
What to do what to
do? Really I have no idea. Which way it should be? And mostly I can just write
it and see what happens and decide after, but then what if.... yeah, I’m stump.
Yeah.... so as you can also
see I’m kinda into the whole ONE PIECE thing and since it’s what my sister
likes and she’s like IN love with
the series I won’t ever have to worry about it, I’ll read it write after her
(mostly because her boyfriend is still up to book 20something and she’s like
nearly finished what’s already out which is 58ish and well, I’m going to be in
the twenties by next week, if not the week after (I think it’s the week after) I’ll
get to go before him. also true because I’ll read the book in the hour it takes
to read not the days it takes him to get around to it.
But yeah, that’s the new thing
I’m working on....
And that’s it I think. What I’ve
done in the end part of 2011—really pathetic, especially if this is something I
actually want to do! Might need to really think about it, right? Nah, I have,
and it is, I’m just in a funk because of lack of Iron in my blood stream (I’m
like lacking the crap by nature, how awesome is that, especially since I’m a
female and we kinda really need the shit, more so than men sometimes) and...Yeah...
Oh, oh, I’ve also decided to
write a real-to-life book, this one is actually true, or sorta, it’s my little
bit of baby depression that I had after giving birth to my son. you see, before
writing I kept extensive journals and so it’s all true, and yet he won’t be all
my son, because I find that a little mean, and some of the context isn’t going
to be fully true. But I had some baby blues and even though I didn’t need a
shrink or nothing I still had it, and well...my mum wanted me to write
something more real, and well... she might not won’t to read it. Or even feel
happy once she did, but I’m getting there. Already written 2pages and it was in
ten minutes or so, it’s actually pretty simple but makes me feel a little like
shit in the fact that I really did feel that way.
Anywho so that’s it at the
moment but I have drawn up a short list of what I’m going to write in 2012...
·
Pirate novel: the
Wrath of Underwood.
·
Finish [unnamed],
Elementally Female
·
Warrior Brethren
book 1 & 2
·
Novella:
contemporary; How I learnt to love him
Well, that’s all
Thanks for the time
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