I’m received heaps of feedback of late, specifically on Impatience, which is quite valuable to me and greatly appreciated! Something I didn’t expect are the number of diverse reactions to a variety of situations which occur throughout the story (being careful here – no spoilers). A few friends swear they occasionally shed a tear.
Wow, I must be doing something right. I’m managing to effectively communicating relatable and likeable characters, awesome 
As a writer I try to produce something I myself would like to read. One of the cool things about editing and let’s face it I’m talking here about a long haul tiresome slog which feels like its never ending, is the realisation each page I work through is that little bit better. To know I’m trimming the fat and producing an improved, tighter read is immensely rewarding.
I find I’m also tweaking the characters a little here and there. I’m enjoying the characters even more and this goes for both books. I could potentially dream up the most amazing story of all however if my characters are wooden, flatly boring and or non-realistic (is that a word?) I can’t expect a reader to really derive much enjoyment?
When someone reads something into what I wrote I hadn’t intended or innocently suggested, perhaps without a lot of depth to it (ok I’ll be honest one of these in particular I didn’t even mean to do!) I just nod sagely and pretend I meant it while listening to them and hoping they don’t notice or possibly read my blog. Oops.
Another thing which keeps happening of late is I’m being hit with exactly the same question (it’s a bit freaky) ‘How did you do this?’ with a look of awe and amazement on their faces.
This question usually comes about when they finish the story. The reader is asking out of curiosity how did I actually write it.
Well, I started at Page 1 and finished at the last page and that’s the simple truth. Of course during this process I refined a few, not many, sections along the way however I simply wrote it in MS Word with Google and Google Earth (what a resource that is!) open in the background, always at hand.
I wrote Impatience in two parts:
Part 1 took 9 weeks.
I took a break for a while. Hey it was Christmas time after all.
Part 2 took just short of five months.
Yes I know, considerably longer than part 1 however it is twice the size and a lot more complex (I think I had over a dozen Google searches running for some parts – Google is my friend!).
I raced through one super fast full read through, on second thoughts this should have been more thorough and then ran off lots of copies to shove at family and friends. That’s it, very little jumping around it was scene 1 followed by scene 2 and then scene 3, you get the picture.
Gosh, another long post, time for me to go… cheerio!
