Fisherbabes Writings

Finally getting into the swing of writing again, I work in Insurance and was very busy here with a large Windstorm which struck the country in July, so I have spent most of August and September catching up.  Found it hard to get into the third book after writing the first and second consecutively.

I am enjoying writing again, though I am surprised at the twists that my characters are coming up with, funny how they take on a life of their own – I had some very set ideas of what I want to see happen, and blowed if my evil main character has thrown a real spanner in the works – it still all works though.  That’s what I love about writing, the whole spontaneity thing.

Sephron is really starting to manipulate the story now, he wants it to go another way, and it has developed a delicious new twist, which I am kind of enjoying, I just have to tweak it a bit more.  Sephron has decided that he wants to be seen as a manipulator (as if we did not already know), but wants us to see that he has everyone believing that they are doing their own thing, when he is actually orchestrating the whole thing, the only thing that is annoying him is the fact that Obes got away, he would have preferred to have made Obes suffer first, but he will get another chance, he knows that Obes is the one bringing them all together, bringing all of the elements together, but just why he wants them all together is yet to be seen…

2216 words tonight.  Definitely not going to finish the book by the end of the month, but certainly starting to get into the swing of writing again.  Still it is nice to finally have words flowing, although it is not flowing in order, but that’s alright, as long as it is flowing. 

I have gone back over some of the work I had already written and edited some of it and added more in, so I finally have some flow between a chapter, which is a good thing.  Just need the flow between the scenes, which is hard when you have three different groups to cover, making things slightly hard.  Still, it is nice to be writing again, and if I can do a couple of thousand words a night, I can only slowly, but surely reach the target and get this story finished, then it is back to the start and editing all over again.  That will be the fun part because there is so much I want to add into the first book that I didn’t when I first started it.

I have clocked up 3000 words today!  Yeah hoo.  I concentrated on a part that I wanted to have my main male character focus on, and the muse came back.  It had been something i was thinking about, and obviously by ignoring my main male character, he was ignoring me, so when I found him again, he was more than happy to oblige.  Typical male…

Tycelon is a complex character, who has more depth than I first imagined.  I think he is a combination of all the things I like about males, and a couple of traits that get up my nose, but deep down he is a nice guy, and he wins!  Tycelon has lost his parents relatively early on and has battled on on his own, growing and learning through his own mistakes, although he doesn’t like to make mistakes, he prefers to get it right from the start and will work hard to get it right the first time.  He is my muse, when I write about him, I get inspiration and really figure out where I am going to go, but when I write about one of the other characters, he goes cold on me.  The problem is that the story revolves around several key characters, but I think he is jealous of the new character, Ubek that I originally wrote in so that I could kill him at the end, because I didn’t want any of the other characters dying.  Weird I know.  I tried to make Ubek arrogant and unlikeable, but he has grown on me.  He is arrogant and unlikeable because he doesn’t trust anyone and doesn’t trust himself.  He doesn’t want anyone getting close, and it is not until the last book that we find out why, he has such a huge secret that could blow him apart and jeopardise the entire mission.

Wow, thats deep!

I am having problems getting the words onto the paper and things are seemingly very disjointed at the moment.  I am battling on and typing none the less, but what do you do when your muse has up and left you high and dry and wondering what the hell you are supposed to be doing?

I have found a couple of passages that are flowing out of me, and have been concentrating on those, but I am struggling to get the book to flow, and this is the last one, the one that brings all of the others together, the ultimate, the book that everyone just has to buy to find out what happens.  I want them to get so gripped by it that they have to read page after page, but I am struggling to even be inspired myself, so how can I expect my reader to be enthralled.  I am even though to send it onto Michelle for fear that she will tell me it is crap!

I will keep writing and see what develops.  To date, I have typed 14,268 words our of 50,000 which is my target, but after some research, I really need to work the books out to 75,000 – 100,000 – I have some ideas, but I want to complete the third book before I start at the beginning and add more stuff in.  I have to make sure that there is continuity between all of the books.

I do have some ideas for editing written out already, but just have to take my time and concentrate on the third book, so that I can go back to the beginning and work through them logically!

Oh muse, where for art thou!