Back on track this week

I have taken the week off from work, and have already caught up on my recorded shows on the history of the Druids, Celts and some really interesting stuff on underground Dublin. (Right now I am loving the inventor of DVR - I've had these shows sitting there for as much as 5 months!)

No more excuses - writing commences today!

Timing

OK - I have not been writing for a month. I'm the in process of moving and a relative has passed so the timing hasn't worked and probably wont for a while longer.

But, in doing some light reading recently, I discovered something interesting. I have a pivotal event which happens on the Summer Solstice in the book, and I have since discovered some mythology stating that the Tuatha de Danaan crossed over on the Summer Solstice - this ties in beautifully with my book. I already intentionally had mythology layered onto history mixed into the fiction - and this just adds to the depth.

Fantastic!

Gwydion

So this weekend I had fun beefing up my character Gwydion. He's an important secondary character, but he didn't have much of a personality other than being smug. He's not done yet but I have a lot of great mythological parallels and he has a bit more depth now. Still so much more to do...but baby steps....

Good Sign

So I printed up my manuscript for my husband to read. He is a stickler for grammar, and is wonderful at catching the smallest error. In the process of writing this book I have gone from 3rd person present tense to 1st person past tense so I know there is a load of errors throughout.

Well, he got so caught up in the story that there are barely any edits! He also told me that he started having trouble putting it down (he can't lie to save his life - so this is most likely true).

Now I know my grammar isn't ideal and I know he is quite biased - so I am choosing to interpret this as just a good sign that I am on the right track

I am also making a mental note that I need to try a crit group again or a hire a professional editor.