About me:
I had the nickname "Day Dreamer" at school, I suppose I was constantly lost in my own world. This changed when adolescence kicked in; indie music rocked onto the scene and suddenly, I had a social life - with real live friends.
Party time over, with grown up responsibilities, very little spare time and even less spare money, I rediscovered the enchantment of books. I also needed to work from home and luckily, a small publishing house needed someone to typeset a conveyor belt of romantic novels. The sort where the main character is loved and admired by all other characters, apart from this one guy, but eventually she wins him round with her wonderfulness. And perfect beauty.
The saccharine hurt my teeth. "I could do better than this!" I told anyone who'd listen. Finally, a friend snapped. 'Then why don't you?' So I did.
And guess what? It's not quite so simple as I first thought - I now have much more respect for those writers. Crafting worlds, creating characters, planning adventures is easy ... in my own mind.
The hard part is translating images into words, in a way that allows an intrepid reader to infuse those stories with their imagination and really bring them to life. Let me know how that works for you!
I had the nickname "Day Dreamer" at school, I suppose I was constantly lost in my own world. This changed when adolescence kicked in; indie music rocked onto the scene and suddenly, I had a social life - with real live friends.
Party time over, with grown up responsibilities, very little spare time and even less spare money, I rediscovered the enchantment of books. I also needed to work from home and luckily, a small publishing house needed someone to typeset a conveyor belt of romantic novels. The sort where the main character is loved and admired by all other characters, apart from this one guy, but eventually she wins him round with her wonderfulness. And perfect beauty.
The saccharine hurt my teeth. "I could do better than this!" I told anyone who'd listen. Finally, a friend snapped. 'Then why don't you?' So I did.
And guess what? It's not quite so simple as I first thought - I now have much more respect for those writers. Crafting worlds, creating characters, planning adventures is easy ... in my own mind.
The hard part is translating images into words, in a way that allows an intrepid reader to infuse those stories with their imagination and really bring them to life. Let me know how that works for you!