So, I’m 61K into “Under the Hill”, and I’m now completely sure that I have a Fantasy novel on my hands, not a romance. This is all well and good, except that two of the characters (George and Chris) have backstory together – massive, massive backstory. I find myself really wanting to write their massive…
How cool is this: http://girlebooks.com/about-us/ It’s a site which takes public domain books from Project Gutenberg, reformats them to read properly on an e-reader, gives them an excellent cover made from public domain art, and then lets you download the end product for free. Free books! I’ve been and grabbed The Mystery of Udolfo, The…
I’m having one of those years where I seem to be doing nothing, while standing in bemusement and watching the time fleet past me. How did it get to be May already? Rose is on study leave as of this time next week, and then she’ll have a couple of weeks of exams in June…
All this month over at Coffee Time Romance, authors published by Samhain are doing a mass posting of excerpts, plus a mass give-away of books. For every excerpt posted, all you have to do is comment on it and you could win that book. It’s going on here: http://www.coffeetimeromance.com/board/forumdisplay.php?f=1264 I’ve got an excerpt of Captain’s…
27. Along similar lines, do appearances play a big role in your stories? Tell us about them, or if not, how you go about designing your characters. Some characters’ physical appearances make a difference in their story, and some don’t. Generally, if my characters are handsome they receive more attention of the “phwoar, I’d do…
26. Let’s talk art! Do you draw your characters? Do others draw them? Pick one of your OCs and post your favorite picture of him! Do I draw my characters? No, I can’t draw. Do others draw them? Only one person (to my knowledge) has ever drawn one of my characters. That was the amazing…
25. Do any of your characters have pets? Tell us about them. Hm… Oswy (from The Witch’s Boy) has a dog, as a result of a symbolic gesture on the part of Leofwine, which told us a lot about Leofwine and something about Oswy, but nothing about the dog. The dog then plays no further…
24. How willing are you to kill your characters if the plot so demands it? What’s the most interesting way you’ve killed someone? I’m perfectly willing to kill a character whose purpose in the story is to die – that’s what he’s there for. To a certain extent I think of my characters as actors…
Day 23 of the meme: 23. How long does it usually take you to complete an entire story–from planning to writing? It very much depends on how long the story is. I don’t really like short stories, so I’m generally looking either at a novel or a novella. In that case it doesn’t normally take…
22. Tell us about one scene between your characters that you’ve never written or told anyone about before! Serious or not. If I haven’t written it, and I don’t intend to write it, is it really a scene at all? I mean, yes, there was the one where Farrant survived and he, John and Alfie…
