Words and Wifi

After nothing more than dribs and drabs of writing -- the ideas are all there, the time to put them down isn’t -- I was pleased to get a productive weekend of writing done on my out-of-genre work. Of course, things can’t be as easy as that, and so I fought to make time around my sport, the kids’ sport, chasing around after the kids, cooking (mmm, lovely pork and vegetable soup / stew, and melt-off-your-fork slow roasted lamb and roast vegetables), and the other duties associated with keeping the household from devolving into complete chaos (managed chaos is okay, though).

I did get the time in front of the keyboard, only for our internet connection to fall over. Normally this isn’t too much of an issue, as I have all the research I need offline / in real book form / on my computer / in my mind for my erotica writing, but in this case I needed access to some definite information. With its setting in the real world, the actions and reactions of my characters need to fit in with what their particular activities demand. These activities are some which I have very little prior experience with, even if I have had plenty of prior exposure (environmental) to them. Getting the right terminology is also a bit difficult as, with many things Australian, a unique slang has evolved to support it.

Since I haven’t made things difficult enough with that, I have a number of characters who are immigrants -- their background actually plays a big part of how the story evolves, and their actions and reactions at various times. Working off pre-conceived notions of how I think they would act / react isn’t enough. As with my normal erotica writings, I am aiming for a believable, realistic fiction where the reader is able to relate to the characters and the world which they inhabit.

Losing access to the internet in the midst of a good writing session didn’t help, but I managed to get enough research material downloaded before the internet broke that it didn’t affect the session.

The book has to be finished by the end of May, so there’s a no-later-than date for going back to my Erotica. I have been getting some good ideas for moving some of my Erotica drafts forward, and what otherwise would have been short stories are looking like they will transition to novellas quite nicely.