The Joy Of A New Start By Morton S. Gray

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The Joy Of A New Start By Morton S. Gray

I absolutely love starting new stories. I just get a buzz from that feeling of having an unfolding kernel of an idea and characters forming in my head. This point where even I don’t know the story is just so exciting. I can’t wait for the lives of my characters to unfold beneath my pen or keyboard.

Some of you know that I have six published novels with Choc Lit Publishing, now an imprint of Joffe Books. I won’t tell you how many more unpublished novels in many different genres I have “under the bed” as they say.

I have always written in some form or other, be it poems, diaries or stories of varying lengths. I recently came across some poems I wrote when I was about twelve and my first attempt at a novel when I was fourteen. But life gets in the way sometimes and my writing was sporadic until I decided to take it more seriously in 2008. Even then, it took until 2017 for my first novel, The Girl on the Beach, to be out in the world.

In some ways those early days were the most enjoyable when I had no idea if I could actually write, when I was making new friends in the writing world, attending courses, being part of The Romantic Novelists’ Association New Writers Scheme and was full of a seemingly endless need to put words onto paper. Having just been through a period of time with family issues that made concentration on writing difficult, I am now looking forward to a new chapter (excuse the pun).

So, today I sit at my desk with new ideas bubbling to the surface. Where will Mark Halladay and Bonnie Gilbert take me on my journey to get to know them and their story?

“Bonnie put her battered suitcase and overfilled backpack on the floor in the unfamiliar hallway …”

Wish me luck.

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