While I’ve been absent and unable to make progress due to work on the wiring and plumbing in my home, I’ve been storing the disruption and emotions to share with the hero of my work in progress, Hugh.
Hugh has a platoon of workmen updating his manor, but trouble-free is not the plan.
He could find alternate lodgings but having been absent for so long it wouldn’t be desirable in the circumstances he faces.
The time away from the manuscript has also allowed me to develop the options for the gaps left in the first draft- that must be resolved in the second.
Also the antagonists have revealed their motives and produced a few surprises.
Progress will be made this year…
Story building blocks…
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Time out from a novel can be just as useful as sitting staring at the screen. Ideas come to you when you’re not searching for them, and inspiration comes from the everyday as much as from research. A writer’s brain is a very strange place, and never quite turns off!
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Agree with you on all of those points Lorraine.
I was following a discussion in a group and a fact was mentioned that fitted perfectly for one of the holes and would be a valid reason why my heroine reacts as she does.
It’s like doing a mental jigsaw much of the time.
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