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Let's Create a Novel Character

Start with someone you know, or know of. If it's someone from your life I suggest writing under a pseudonym. Now, whom have I met recently? Well, we are in a pandemic so I don't exactly bump into new people often. I'm usually always at home. So I wonder... Okay, I think I have something. Last night I had to drive out at 1:30 in the morning. For nefarious reasons? I'll let you decide. Oh wait. No I won't. I don't want anyone thinking I was out spreading the virus. Okay it was a boring reason, but still an interesting time of night, no? I was out helping with a car break down. The end. Anyway, I saw a person at the end of my street as I was driving out. This person made me think of the song The Freaks Come Out at Night. My reason for thinking this was the way he was dressed. A grey hoodie. That's not too freaky. Black sweatpants / joggers. Normal enough, to the knees anyway. For some reason his sweats were shoved up over his knees and he was wearing thick wool

My Favourite Audiobooks From 2020

It takes me ages of searching and sample listening to find good audibooks to listen to, but when I find gems I feel the need to share them so that others will know to "read" them as well! Seriously, I loved the audiobooks that follow below...  If anyone knows of audibooks similar to any of those I've listened to, please let me know. Sometimes I have to search and search for weeks and weeks until I find something worthy of my listening ears. So quality, similar recommends are very appreciated. I cannot express how important character driven stories are to me, and the first two titles below are perfect examples of characters who are so well written and developed, that by the end of the book they are real people in my mind.  Florida Man by Mike Baron  The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman  The Warlock Holmes series of audiobooks by GS Denning  The Magic 2.0 series, and all other audiobooks by Scott Meyer  The End of the World is Nigh - Alley Oldfield Book 1 and The Last

Happy Mid-Pandemic New Year. Friday 1 January 2021

I don’t think I published anything new in 2020. I just couldn’t write. The pandemic threw me. I mean, I had to work and be a home schooling mom at the same time, so the stress and worry was overload city. Towards the end of the year I started to slowly realise how I’d get back to writing. I was back and forth on using a new pen name and starting over, but that has never worked for me. For anyone really. I’m determined to do one new thing daily this year, but more than just one thing actually.  I’m going to write one page of a new novel daily. I will blog daily. And I will put up one YouTube video daily. I thought I’d read from my books on video whilst doing my makeup. But then I realised that would be too tricky. Ha! Another realisation that took me a year to figure out, is that I do enjoy writing like me, the fiction that I write, and I can implement the pandemic in my own way. I’ve already made a one page start on the 3rd book in my Superduper trilogy. It’s fun already and I’m loving