Novel Exploration#ScribesAndMakers 2 Whatever?
Whatever this reconnaissance was for, it was not about sleeping sheds. One of those sheds had a secret.
WordWeavers 11/11
mood of story, colours or sounds
Green, grey brown, orange brown and the sound of falling rain
Black, fluorescent white, loud voices and the sound of running feet
Green, green, green, golden yellow, a blackbird singing
Grey shot through with red, engine hum, station tannoy, the wish-wash of windscreen wipers
Gold and the slamming of doors
Orange, purple, red, yellow and the Schubert octet
A hubbub of voices, birdsong
A phone ringing
#WritersCoffeeClub 20
What rôle does death play in your work?
In the natural course of things, death is usually there or thereabouts
Now I look more closely, it seems death is always there or thereabouts
#novelx1: 1. traffic 'accident'
/ 2. suicide
#novelx2: 1. father [MC1]
/ 2. army service in Belfast
/ 3. both parents [MC2]
#novelx3: 1. wife
#novelx4: 1. suicide [ref x1 above]
/ 2. terrorist bomb
#novelx5: 1. Covid19
#WordWeavers Aug 16: Who is your most flamboyant character, and is it more visual, behavioural, or something else?
That would have to be Elyssia ... and it is all in the behaviour
Interesting that I don't have any visually flamboyant characters 🤔
WordWeavers 23
Your MC is lost in a busy city…
Nice question
Novelx1: Broderick Arnot, lean against a wall looking lost until someone offered to help
Novelx2: Theresa, take refuge in a cafe and ask the barista
Tom would never consider himself lost
Novelx3: Andrew Bridge, hail a cab
Novelx4: Elyssia, ask the first person to walk by: “Where the hell am I?”
Novelx5: Jim, phone Gill (his wife) & ask where he’s supposed to be
WordWeavers 4th June
Describe the mood of the opening paragraph of your story using 3 adjectives
wet wet wet
"It had, apparently, and quite probably, been the wettest June on record. He had read somewhere that, surprisingly, July was often the wettest month of the year (taking the average over the past thirty or forty years) knocking both December and January into a rain-gauge. This year, it was June."
#WordWeavers Mar 28
What gives your characters a sense of self-worth or meaning in their life?
#novelx1
Broderick: working with a team; finding signs of (past) life in the soil
#novelx2
Theresa: sailing; helping people
#novelx3
Andrew: fighting climate change (even if it is a hopeless cause)
#novelx4
Elyssia: believing in a better world; the love of the man she loves
#novelx5
Jim: surviving day to day; keeping the Tidal Teashop open
#WritersCoffeeClub - Dec 2. From all your work, who's your favourite character?
Oh, alright! I admit it
It's that annoying-girl-turned-vicar Elyssia Gadnall / Williams
She was the most annoying character in #novelx1 when she kept butting in where she was not wanted but she grew up to become a ... well ... a vicar
#WritersCoffeeClub #amWritingFiction
#novelx1 #novelx4 #novelx5 #ElyssiaGadnall
CW: This is a tough one
#PennedPossibilities 436 — Did your MC ever feel as though their innocence had been lost? What moment in their life could be described as the end of their innocence?
Yes
You’ll have to read the book
Which means I’ll have to publish it
Which means I’ll have to finish it and get it edited and …
Let’s just say, EG was assaulted by someone she knew from school when she was eighteen and gave birth nine months later
Totally understand. Thanks for the encouragement. I think I've found a group at the local writers' workshop that will read (or hear) some of my stuff and give me feedback. At the very least, you have prompted me to do a thorough re-edit of #novelx1, which can only be a good thing! Onwards and upwards
All the best for your own writing and search for recognition
Keep smiling
😉