Writing in Ice: A new blog
Yesterday, I wrote the first post for my new blog: Writing in Ice.
Over the last ten years or so I have undertaken a ton of research on Iceland for my Magnus crime series: reading books, meeting people, and of course visiting the country many times. If you have ever been to Iceland you will know it’s a weird and exciting place, where strange things happen. Much of this I have been able to show in my Magnus series, but not all of it. The time has come to write it down.
Writing in Ice will be the story of how I fell in love with Iceland: a memoir of researching and writing a detective series set in the Land of Fire and Ice.
The blog will describe the landscape, society, history and people of Iceland as seen through the eyes of a writer researching a crime novel.
There will be posts on crime and the police, language, the sagas, volcanoes, the financial crash and the pots and pans revolution, folklore and elves, the sagas, the rapid modernisation of the country in the twentieth century, sheep farming, fishing and the Viking discovery of America. All these will relate to researching the characters, settings and plots of my Magnus novels.
I intend to show what is involved in writing a crime series set in a foreign country: how to come up with a detective, how to describe landscape, how to invent characters, how to plot and how to revise. It will be the story of how I set about discovering Iceland, of getting to know the place well enough that I could convincingly set a series of mysteries there.
I hope anyone who has visited Iceland or plans to travel to the country will find something of interest here, as will readers of my Magnus series. I will include posts on my favourite places in Iceland, a few well known, most less so.
If you would like to take a look at my Writing in Ice blog www.writinginice.com , please do. And if you click on the little white “subscribe” button at the top of the blog, you should get the posts whenever they come out; my plan is to post every week to begin with, and then every couple of weeks thereafter.
Over the last ten years or so I have undertaken a ton of research on Iceland for my Magnus crime series: reading books, meeting people, and of course visiting the country many times. If you have ever been to Iceland you will know it’s a weird and exciting place, where strange things happen. Much of this I have been able to show in my Magnus series, but not all of it. The time has come to write it down.
Writing in Ice will be the story of how I fell in love with Iceland: a memoir of researching and writing a detective series set in the Land of Fire and Ice.
The blog will describe the landscape, society, history and people of Iceland as seen through the eyes of a writer researching a crime novel.
There will be posts on crime and the police, language, the sagas, volcanoes, the financial crash and the pots and pans revolution, folklore and elves, the sagas, the rapid modernisation of the country in the twentieth century, sheep farming, fishing and the Viking discovery of America. All these will relate to researching the characters, settings and plots of my Magnus novels.
I intend to show what is involved in writing a crime series set in a foreign country: how to come up with a detective, how to describe landscape, how to invent characters, how to plot and how to revise. It will be the story of how I set about discovering Iceland, of getting to know the place well enough that I could convincingly set a series of mysteries there.
I hope anyone who has visited Iceland or plans to travel to the country will find something of interest here, as will readers of my Magnus series. I will include posts on my favourite places in Iceland, a few well known, most less so.
If you would like to take a look at my Writing in Ice blog www.writinginice.com , please do. And if you click on the little white “subscribe” button at the top of the blog, you should get the posts whenever they come out; my plan is to post every week to begin with, and then every couple of weeks thereafter.
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