A Calculated Risk – The One That Almost Got Away

It started as they all start: the germ of an idea, an outline of the main characters, a setting, themes and a genre. I knew I wanted to write a series. I knew I wanted to set it “up north”, I knew that its leading ladies would once have loved and then lost each other. With all that settled, I made plans and character notes and more plans, and I spent hours chatting about it with my wife while we were out hiking. I also knuckled down and wrote 20,000 words, and they weren’t rubbish words eith...