Apologies, no updates this week. I will be traveling around Scotland with my husband, my mother, and her sister and won’t be able to update. But, follow me on Twitter, @LiaBooke, I will be Tweeting about what we see! Updates will return next Sunday.

Writing a historical is an interesting new variation on an old experience.

My Readers may remember that I mentioned a new project a little while ago. I’m beginning writing a historical novel. This isn’t a genre I have too much experience with, but it is one that interests me greatly. For one thing, it combines two passions, my passion for fiction and my passion for Ancient Egypt. Also, I very much like historical novels, but there’s a real dearth of Egyptian ones. The author’s answer to a quandary like that is of course to go out and write one herself. So, that’s what I’m doing.
continue reading "Research"

Daffodils

I just want to wish all my readers a very happy Easter. My husband and I attended a beautiful service in the Cathedral, which was an interesting experience. We spent the afternoon celebrating with some new friends. I hope everyone was able to celebrate with their friends or loved ones.

We will return with proper content on Wednesday.

How I use outlines.

I really don’t like outlines. I feel like they’re restrictive, and I’d rather just sit down and start writing, letting the ideas flow organically from my brain onto the page. Even for school papers, I’ve always written the outline (when we were required to turn one in) after I finished the paper itself. Outlines are just not my cup of tea.

Except, these days it seems like they are. Not that they’re very organized outlines, more like a long, hand-written list of plot (subject) points. But everything I’ve written in the past several months, from school papers, to Through Brass Goggles has begun with an outline. Sometimes, particularly with fiction, the outline comes after the first page or two. Mostly the school essays start with the outline first.
continue reading "Outlining"

Some thoughts on good script writing.

Movies, television shows, plays. All these things require a combination of good script writing, and good acting. Badly acted Shakespeare may still be Shakespeare, but it doesn’t move us. And the best acting in the world can’t disguise bad writing. Neither of these things is subordinate to the other, they work together. It is only a few days until Nanowrimo’s Script Frenzy* begins, so I thought I’d talk a bit about good writing in relation to scripts.
continue reading "The West Wing"

Here is part 3 of “Rho’s Odyssey” at last. Apologies for the lateness of it, I got distracted. Remember, if you want to read the previous part, visit DeGirl for part 2. And if you’d like to continue the story yourself, hop on over to Rho’s Prologue and sign up in the comments! Currently, no one is signed up to continue it, so you could be next!
continue reading "Rho’s Odyssey, Chapter 1 part 3"