I've posted before about the fact that I'm writing a novel. The 'Great Work', as I affectionately and optimistically call it, has been in progress for longer than I care to remember, but finally - FINALLY - I am nearing the end (of the first draft, you understand).
Unsurprisingly, when I mention to people that I'm writing a book, their immediate assumption is that it's chick-lit, or something like it. Shoes, shopping, expat life, Woman in not so severe Crisis, that sort of thing. However, it's rather different to that.
I am writing what I have been informed is a 'suspense genre' novel, with a protaganist who is a scruffy 30 year old man rather than a willowy 40-something brunette based loosely on myself, or Juliette Binoche. (Because, you know, in a certain light...) And rather than doing the sensible thing and putting a plan on paper before I started, I have allowed the story to grow organically. The characters have taken shape almost by themselves, rather than sticking to any pre-planned format that I created.
It's been an interesting process, not least because I didn't know at the beginning how the story was going to end. There's just one problem.
I am within a few thousand words of finishing the first draft - and I still don't know how it's going to end.
Like I said, the suspense is killing me...
Unsurprisingly, when I mention to people that I'm writing a book, their immediate assumption is that it's chick-lit, or something like it. Shoes, shopping, expat life, Woman in not so severe Crisis, that sort of thing. However, it's rather different to that.
I am writing what I have been informed is a 'suspense genre' novel, with a protaganist who is a scruffy 30 year old man rather than a willowy 40-something brunette based loosely on myself, or Juliette Binoche. (Because, you know, in a certain light...) And rather than doing the sensible thing and putting a plan on paper before I started, I have allowed the story to grow organically. The characters have taken shape almost by themselves, rather than sticking to any pre-planned format that I created.
It's been an interesting process, not least because I didn't know at the beginning how the story was going to end. There's just one problem.
I am within a few thousand words of finishing the first draft - and I still don't know how it's going to end.
Like I said, the suspense is killing me...
