It’s Been A While

It has been a while, it has been over six weeks. When you get visitors and other issues that counts into ones writing.  So I bet everyone wonders if I have finished the book.

No, I have not. However I now have a brand new computer and that is going to be a huge help. The last one was about ten years old. It was slow, the program had every intention of making sure I could not get the story successfully finished. When I got to see what it had done to different chapters I was very stressed. However, now I have my new MacBook Pro with Pages and I am roaring right along. I managed to fix three chapters, excessive repairs to the poor mangled chapters in the last three days.

Next weekend is When Words Collide. That is a conference with publishers, editors, writers, artists and that is when I pitch my book to Penguin Publishing. My computer will be with me and when there isn’t a workshop for me to be in, I will be working on the book. When this book is done and I start the next  book in this series. I and wills start working on the screenplay, with a partner who has written screenplays before.

I am considering drawing my own book cover or using one of my favorite Ireland photos.

 

So, I am now off to continue writing.

 

 

 

 

What Do I Write?

This is a question all writers are asked and it is; “What do you write?” We also ask each other that question because we are interested and many of us cross genre’s.

Many suspect that if you are a member of a romance writers association then, you must write only romance. That is totally untrue because I don’t slobbery, oozy, gooey romance. Actually many romance writers  don’t write that syrupy stuff. They write romance with more substance.

Now, I don’t write romance. I won’t deny there may be a bit of romance in my writings but it involves much more than; boy meets girl, he likes her, she thinks he is a creep.they eventually fall in love and live happily ever after. No, I don’t write that, ever.

The novel I am writing now is what is called Historical Fantasy, it takes place during the Iron Age. This is the fifth century AD  in Ireland. It has to do with the Invasion of Christianity. Yes, it is fiction but contains a great deal of non fiction. Is there romance? Yes, a very small amount but not in the way you might think. Romance is not the predominant part of this story. I am planning on making this a trilogy following the main characters family through different parts of history.

Besides Historical Fantasy, I write; fantasy, murder, mystery, paranormal, poems, and short stories also. I don’t do romance or Sci Fi. I won’t say I will never do romance but It just doesn’t amuse me at this time.

I am a person who likes historical things, This means pre 1900’s. I like to write in some of those veins.  The language for contemporary would be easier but not as exciting for me to write. I believe that  you should write what excites you, because if you are excited by what you write there will be people who are excited to read it.