These days the climate is a pretty controversial subject. No one *really* knows what's happening; theories are flying, blah blah blah. The physical setting of Lucy's story is giving me trouble. Where should she live? Every book that truly sucks me in to the story is set in a very distinct location, somewhere that fits the protagonist perfectly! I know I've read a handful of books with severely mismatched locales, and it totally ruined the story for me. So I'm having some trouble deciding where her life should be.
She's definitely not a country girl. No small towns here! But is she meant for the "big city", a la New York? Certainly if I'm going to introduce a corporate conglomerate it will have to be based in a fairly sizable and business oriented city. Am I stuck with New York?
Wednesday 14 December 2011
Wednesday 30 November 2011
Choose your own adventure
I read more than most, I think. And I read more than one book at a time. I truly enjoy getting lost in a good story, though I tend to gravitate towards the murder/mystery/love story genre. It's like candy, I can't get enough. When I think about what I want to build for Lucy, I hesitate when it comes to death. It's a strange thing to want to read another persons dealings with such morbid topics, but Lucy? I want to protect her. She's a shiny new toy and I don't want her world tarnished by dirty reality. I suppose it will come out naturally though. Someone will have to die. I just don't have it in me to keep them ALL alive.
Tuesday 29 November 2011
What's in a name?
A few years ago I found out that there was already someone out there in the world with my name that is a published author. Sonofabitch. Good for her! I'm proud that someone with my lovely name has experienced success in the writing world, something I've often thought about. The only thing that bothers me is that I cannot use my own name for writing, should I experience success. It strikes me that using your own name instead of a pseudonym is a shoutout to your parents, a thankful homage to their sacrifices during your upbringing. "See? MY child is a successful published author!" Bragging rights and such.
What are the other options at this point? Do you go with your middle name instead of your first? Do you make up a whole new persona? That could be fun but it certainly sounds like too much work! I have to use a fake persona at my day job (grateful-your-business-sales rep) and let me tell you, it is draining. So I think I'll stick with using my middle name should the need arise. I should probably google it just in case.
What are the other options at this point? Do you go with your middle name instead of your first? Do you make up a whole new persona? That could be fun but it certainly sounds like too much work! I have to use a fake persona at my day job (grateful-your-business-sales rep) and let me tell you, it is draining. So I think I'll stick with using my middle name should the need arise. I should probably google it just in case.
Monday 28 November 2011
It begins
I've often dreamed of being a published writer, as do millions of others around the world. When I was young I was an English wiz. It was incredibly easy for me to conjure short stories and poems at will. I won local writing competitions, district-wide short story prizes, and the like. I had the highest damn provincial test score for the English provincials in my graduating class. And yet I couldn't pick out a verb or a pronoun. I have no idea why, but the reason why a sentence was correct never stuck in my mind. If it was incorrect I could fix it for you, but I couldn't tell you how. It either was or it wasn't.
You'd think I would be one of those "journal people" but I never took to that practice. Never wanted to leave evidence I suppose. Because my journal would contain such scandalous information, obviously. Such a scandalous life I lead. Though I've never put it to paper, there is a story/character that has bounced around my brain for years. Her name is Lucy Perr and she is the product of a slightly gothic outlook on life, coupled with a sunny disposition. She is a little bit sci-fi love, a little bit everyday hero (because we always love to root for them). She is a fun, exciting person with regular problems (man, money, job, etc) who happens to step into the supernatural world. I'm not talking Twilight vampires here, people. No werewolves. No Harry Potter wizardry. Just the devil.
I'm going to build my story here, build the life of Lucy Perr. Perhaps someday I'll finish her story and attempt to publish. Who knows? But her story deserves to be told.
You'd think I would be one of those "journal people" but I never took to that practice. Never wanted to leave evidence I suppose. Because my journal would contain such scandalous information, obviously. Such a scandalous life I lead. Though I've never put it to paper, there is a story/character that has bounced around my brain for years. Her name is Lucy Perr and she is the product of a slightly gothic outlook on life, coupled with a sunny disposition. She is a little bit sci-fi love, a little bit everyday hero (because we always love to root for them). She is a fun, exciting person with regular problems (man, money, job, etc) who happens to step into the supernatural world. I'm not talking Twilight vampires here, people. No werewolves. No Harry Potter wizardry. Just the devil.
I'm going to build my story here, build the life of Lucy Perr. Perhaps someday I'll finish her story and attempt to publish. Who knows? But her story deserves to be told.
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