KELLY LYONNS, WRITER: ROMANCE, PARANORMAL, SCIENCE FANTASY
  • Hello!
  • Regency Romance - The Bladewood Legacy
  • Anthologies
  • Who?
  • Dear Blog, May I Call You Petunia?
  • Romance, Heroics and High Tea
  • Privacy Policy
  • Hello!
  • Regency Romance - The Bladewood Legacy
  • Anthologies
  • Who?
  • Dear Blog, May I Call You Petunia?
  • Romance, Heroics and High Tea
  • Privacy Policy
KELLY LYONNS, WRITER: ROMANCE, PARANORMAL, SCIENCE FANTASY

Kelly Lyonns

Romance, Heroics and High Tea
...and writing 

Plodding (lightly) on ...

17/2/2015

 
Well a busy week and a half of little writing but much thinking, which as it turned out was very productive. When I did get to the keyboard the dialogue just flowed onto the page. I've started on the second of my regency paranormals, this one is tentatively called The Sailor's Lass. I'm on the second scene and so far so good. I have plotted out the beginning of this one but haven't got much further. The characters didn't care and started without me. Charles, Charlotte's brother from The Soldier's Woman, seems to be much more of a pivotal character than I had ever envisaged. 

It was interesting because the characters took up the story as if I had just walked back in on them. I have an idea of where my story was going but now I'm not so sure. The landscape is much richer and the characters are bringing along their friends. 

I could say the same thing of the other books I am working on. Yes, I know you not supposed to work on more than one thing at a time, but I have never been able to be so single-minded. The exception being deadlines, where I seal myself into my 'mind palace' and ring the walls with explosive devices. My short 'environmental fairytale' with romantic elements has taken itself off the back burner and plonked itself on  my keyboard. 

All this activity was triggered by one thing that had been percolating somewhere in the grey folds of my cerebral cortex - dialogue. There comes a point in my storytelling where I can hear and see the characters. This is the point where it becomes necessary for me to document their dialogue. And yes, it is really is documenting what they are saying. For most of the story I am the director, but at these moments I am listening to my characters. At the 2012 Writers Festival Maryline Hume (MD Hume), who writes the Arthurian historical fiction, said she just ran after her characters madly writing down what they were saying. I totally get that.

A strange mix of plodding slowly through the plot and flitting from one exciting adventure to the next. ​

Comments are closed.
    SO GLAD YOU DROPPED BY.
    ​​WANT TO KNOW WHAT'S NEW?  WHY NOT SIGN-UP FOR A MINTY FRESH NEWSLETTER?
    Click here to sign-up
    Kelly Lyonns
    ​writes paranormal tinted romance and science fiction.
     
    ​
    Frequently succumbs to the need to write.
    ​Rarely succumbs to the need to vacuum.

    Categories

    All
    Existential Ecologist
    Writing


    Archive

    November 2020
    October 2020
    June 2020
    August 2019
    June 2019
    July 2017
    April 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    June 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015

    RSS Feed

    Picture
Original Photography by Nadia Russell
Additional Material by Johannes Plenio, Alessio Fiorentino, Muhammad Haikal & Ivan Bandura, DepositPhotos