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What happens next?

26/03/2010 / Ellie

Someone asked me the other day why I write. Easy. I write because I don’t know how not to.

I’ve been a storyteller all my life. Since I could hold a pen, and make marks on paper that weren’t just copying something off the blackboard. It’s as natural to me as breathing.

As time went on, the stories got longer, more complex. I’d get an idea and just run with it, to see where it took me. When I was 14, one of those ideas took me on a wild, 260-page adventure cranked out on an old Adler portable typewriter (forever remembered as the Tripewriter) in one-and-a-half linespacing. I can still smell the carbon paper. Continue reading

Whose book is it anyway?

10/02/2010 / Ellie

Terry Pratchett once said in an interview that you’ve got to keep an eye on your secondary characters, or they’ll take over the show. Turn your back for five minutes and there they are, merrily rearranging the plot to suit themselves, the blighters, and generally making more work for the poor put-upon writer.

I thought I might avoid that with Trinity Moon, since I was working from a synopsis (a heretofore unheard-of event, I might add, which has proved helpful and frustrating in equal measure). Everything’s chugging along nicely, and I come to an action scene where Gair throws a lock on Ne’er-do-well No. 1 and laying his sword across the fellow’s neck, threatens to cut his throat. Continue reading