Monday 5 August 2013

My Characters Are Calling...

Some of my characters in waiting have started getting impatient, reminding me they are there and they are waiting for me to get on with their story...

Unfortunately I can't handle two different romances at the same time. Each hero is different and it won't help continuity if characteristics from Marcus (from my Dorset novel) start transferring themselves to Hugh (in my Nottinghamshire novella).

I may have to assign different days of the week to each story just to keep them happy.

At the moment another couple of characters are popping into my mind, so I think I need to do some brain clearing- writing down all the ideas/characteristics that have developed since I first started to give them reality (at Sally Quilford's Pocket Novel workshop a few years ago).

I'd like to attend Sally's next workshop in September, but I won't be able to; but do go if you can, you'll learn a lot and enjoy it.

You can find out more on Sally's blog, here. It's titled 'Recipe for Making Love Stories'- and if you book now, you get it for less.

I've just finished reading Sally's latest My Weekly pocket novel, 'Take My Breath Away'. It all starts with Cleopatra- at least the making of a film about her... :-)

I was so near the end of the story, and didn't want to wait until the following day to finish it, so I stayed up until nearly one o'clock in the morning.

Right, I have to go. I need to start recording my characters' latest revelations...

Do your characters-in-waiting start trying to interrupt, when you're writing something else?

5 comments:

Rosemary Gemmell said...

I think I'm so used to jumping around that I don't notice now - but I don't write the same genre at the same time!

Keith Havers said...

Should we be watching you for signs of a split personality?

Carolb said...

You've probably found the best solution, Rosemary, writing in more than one genre- and very successfully from your books published this year.:-)

Keith, other NWC members have told me that Serena is a different writer to Carol. :-)

liz young said...

Writing all the ideas down is definitely the only way to clear the decks of your mind.

Carolb said...

That's so right, Lizy. A bit like time leaking in past Dr Who episodes...:-)