Why did you write the novel?
Why did you write a novel?
Great question.
Before writing my first novel, I was a teacher in elementary school, who loved to teach writing. I loved challenging my students with words; encouraging them to find different words. To question each other to find a better word for the existing word they were using, stretching their imagination.
After retirement, I developed my creative traits, and began taking classes and workshops: different drawing classes, for example figure, animals, portraits. Painting workshops in watercolors, pastel and acrylic. Pottery and stained glass classes, but never anything on writing!
But this story of my maternal grandparents, and the information that I knew from my genealogical research, kept going around in my head and was now demanding to be noticed! It was in 2013, that I made the announcement that I was going to write a novel!
So like many other people who want to write. I turned to books on writing! How to write a story, how to develop a character, how to outline the plot! Jeeze, this was all in my head. Oh, I needed counseling!
I had coffee with my counseling friend, Mary. I told her what I was thinking, she asked about the plot, the characters and their relationships. All of which I was excited to tell her about, at great length!
Smiling as we left the coffee shop, Mary simply said, “Go home and start writing now.”
So, this fantastic journey began.
I loved being the detective and researching for hours. Then, taking knowledge to paint the picture with words, and weave into the story that I was writing. I loved writing about the history and exploring the relationships between the characters and why they changed.
After much research and long days at the keyboard the first draft of Everlasting Lies was finished in August 2014 and sent to my editor Tanis Nessler. Two additional edits for content and another for the technical aspects of spelling, syntax and sentence structure followed it. During this time I was also busy searching for a respected self-publishing company and am very happy with my choice of Friesen Press. All my efforts came to fruition when Everlasting Lies was published on March 31st 2016.
I had proved to myself that I could meet any challenge. Enjoy.
Why did you write a novel?
Great question.
Before writing my first novel, I was a teacher in elementary school, who loved to teach writing. I loved challenging my students with words; encouraging them to find different words. To question each other to find a better word for the existing word they were using, stretching their imagination.
After retirement, I developed my creative traits, and began taking classes and workshops: different drawing classes, for example figure, animals, portraits. Painting workshops in watercolors, pastel and acrylic. Pottery and stained glass classes, but never anything on writing!
But this story of my maternal grandparents, and the information that I knew from my genealogical research, kept going around in my head and was now demanding to be noticed! It was in 2013, that I made the announcement that I was going to write a novel!
So like many other people who want to write. I turned to books on writing! How to write a story, how to develop a character, how to outline the plot! Jeeze, this was all in my head. Oh, I needed counseling!
I had coffee with my counseling friend, Mary. I told her what I was thinking, she asked about the plot, the characters and their relationships. All of which I was excited to tell her about, at great length!
Smiling as we left the coffee shop, Mary simply said, “Go home and start writing now.”
So, this fantastic journey began.
I loved being the detective and researching for hours. Then, taking knowledge to paint the picture with words, and weave into the story that I was writing. I loved writing about the history and exploring the relationships between the characters and why they changed.
After much research and long days at the keyboard the first draft of Everlasting Lies was finished in August 2014 and sent to my editor Tanis Nessler. Two additional edits for content and another for the technical aspects of spelling, syntax and sentence structure followed it. During this time I was also busy searching for a respected self-publishing company and am very happy with my choice of Friesen Press. All my efforts came to fruition when Everlasting Lies was published on March 31st 2016.
I had proved to myself that I could meet any challenge. Enjoy.
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