Taken

Day two

So here we are, day two. The thing to do is to write every day, so that's my goal. Even though no one will read this, in all likelihood. This will be more like a diary, charting my writing and the thoughts and steps I go through, so forgive the stream-of-consciousness flavour.

I'm working on two books at the moment. One is called Betrayed, which is a sequel to Taken, a story about single mother Roxy who becomes a vampire and becomes caught up in an ancient feud and has to look after her young daughter while coming to terms with her need for blood and nocturnal habits.

How did that sound? My biggest problem at the moment is trying to summarise Taken in one sentence so that I can describe it in a covering letter to a potential publisher or agent and attract their attention.

The fundamental 'new idea' as far as I can tell is a vampire with a baby. The rest of the story, while gripping and gritty, is essentially secondary.

Betrayed continues her story as she learns what it is to be a vampire and reacts to decisions that she made in Taken, which have unforseen consequences.

The other story is a Sci-fi story which follows the consequences of a supernova occurring near to Earth. The world is bathed in lethal radiation which sterilises the planet and makes life difficult for the inhabitants. I'm still in the planning stage of this story, and only have a working title of 'Poison Sun' for the moment. I'm drawing on my astrophysics education to help me write this one, which will help as a marketing tool, unlike Taken, for which I don't have any particular skills I can brag about (apart from being a parent I suppose)

Anyway. I should probably just stick with the sentence above to describe Taken, and start sending out letters. I'm pretty sure that I won't get an e-mail from a publisher asking me if I have any novels that I'd like publishing!

First Post

Hello World!

That's usually the first computer program people are taught to write - printing words to a screen, normally looking something like;

int main ()
{
 cout << "Hello World!";
 return 0;
}

so I find it kind of cute that thousands of lines of code have gone into writing the operating system to display the pixels that show the windows that host the web application and navigate the internet, just to allow me to write!

I've just read Simon Whaley's article in NAWG magazine to fall in love with writing again (since I missed his no doubt excellent workshop :o( ), so here's me, flirting again.

I'm not sure what I'm going to write on here, but I don't suppose anyone else does either really, so I'm in good company. I might use it to write my next novel....