I remember years ago when
working in the business world and raising a family. I had numerous roles to
play including a businessperson, husband and father, Now that I’ve retired into
writing, I still retain a number of those roles, but have added a number of new
dimensions—the writing worlds I live in.
To effective write a novel, I
have to immerse myself in the story. This entails putting myself into the role
of the protagonist, feeling what he’s feeling, seeing, hearing and smelling his
environment, in other words, living in that world. Writing has been therapeutic
for me, giving me a chance to capture the ideas swirling around in my head.
Although I didn’t start writing until I was fifty-six years old, I had a lifetime
of ideas ready to get onto paper or into a computer.
What are some of the worlds I’m
living in right now? First thing in the morning I work on my new manuscript. At
the moment it’s a sequel to my paranormal geezer-lit mystery, The Back Wing. This new one is called The Front Wing and takes place in a
retirement home where this is a front wing with normal but snobby people and a
back wing with friendly but extraordinary residents. In the afternoon I’m
working on two revision projects, making rewrites to a manuscript called Court Trouble, a mystery novel that
involves the game of platform tennis, a sport I play. Then I’m also editing the biography I’m writing of a World War II veteran, titled, The Greatest Chicken Thief in All of Europe.
So every day, I’m in these three worlds as well as my real life world. Keeps me
busy.
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