WritingWonders Day 30
Have you ever planned to kill a character and not done it?

The other way round
I planned not to let a character die but she did 😢

Daniella Forrester in my first novel

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#WritingWonders: 18th July

I wasn't sure how to answer this until I saw your answer

It is the characters, but not always how you expect

My #novelx1 (aka #EG1) was intended to be about the archaeology on a student summer dig in the Cotswolds but Elyssia Gadnall, who lived nearby, kept butting in

My current wip(s) - #novelx4 & #novelx5 (#EG2 & #EG3) - is(are) about her

#novelx2: Tom & Theresa
#novelx3: Dr Andrew Bridges

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#PennedPossibilities 6
MC: #FirstKiss.

She met him at the shop. It wasn’t her fault. It was an accident. Totally

It's a sunny day & he said: Do you fancy a walk. They walk & talk. Well, she talks. Joshua never says much at the best of times

Singing & dancing, they skip downhill, arms linked behind their backs, not a care in the world, late primroses under the hedge

Watch out!

A dark 4x4 roars down the lane & they fall on the bank with her on top of him ... & she kisses him

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#wipwednesday

Lying awake at night thinking about the WiP. Decided I need structure

#novelx1 had a structure.
6 week archaeological dig x 7 days. 6x7 = 42 chapters gave a framework to write into

#novelx2: 10 years divided into 3 sections x 4 parts x 5 = 60 ch. It was a bit artificial but it worked fine

#novelx3 was more diffuse and more difficult to write, with no obvious end point

My new scheme for the wip:
6 yrs x 4 seasons x 2, 48 ch

Hmm. We'll see

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#WritingWonders 9. Do natural calamities play a role in your story?

<struggling to think>

#novelx1, at the beginning, there's a deluge of rain that floods the archaeology dig

#novelx2, there's a storm in which a sailing boat carrying one of the main characters (MC1) is wrecked on a beach in Sussex near to where MC2 lives. (Thereby hangs a tale!)

#novelx3, there's a lot of snow at one point making life difficult

#novelx4, nothing yet as far as I can remember...

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#WritingWonders May 30: “What colors do you associate with your WIP, and why?”

Burnt orange, not exactly auburn but it might have something to do with Elyssia's hair colour in certain lights

Grey-blue - shiny, almost metallic - which I associate with Joshua. I have no idea why. Perhaps bc he is some kind of knight in shining armour (?)

Green - the colour of an English summer - although it is mostly not summer in the WiP. This is a hangover from #novelx1 which was

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#WritingWonders Day 20 - Share a snippet of a battle or conflict scene.

I'm not good on conflict but here is a snippet from #Novelx1:

Robbery at the archaeological dig

WiP: 900+ new words today!

This feels good after a week or more tussling with old words - adding a couple of previously written episodes that I'd cut from #novelx1 and rearranging

Total 26k words / 76 pages

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