Update on Forgotten Road
The book has 'come to life'. This might sound wishy-washy but there is a moment (hopefully) when the characters take over and you feel pretty useless as a writer because you just write down what they dictate.
Maisy Robbins, allied with her ferret Valkerie and pony Sparky, has chattered her way from being a temporary side-kick to becoming the main POV who has reduced the protagonist to the role of side-kick and banished the other main character altogether. This is fast becoming her book.
Currently she is planning to defend the Wyrde Woods setting in 1940 against invasion. With allies on her right and left flank and a wild bunch she has named the Wyrde Warriors (armed with spears, bows and arrows) building 'Fort Defiance' in the middle of the woods she is reasonably confident a possible German invasion is doomed to failure.
If this sounds far-fetched then I'll happily refer you to dozens of newspaper clippings from the 1940s describing gangs of English children building redoubts on the common because NO WAY were those Nazis going to take their playgrounds. It might bring a smile to your face, but remember what you were like aged 10-11-12? Dead serious about childish mischief and savvy enough to transform it into reality.
If I keep up at Forgotten Road at the same pace I am managing now an autumn publication date is possible.
Truth be told, Maisy aint giving me a whole lot of choice.
She also told me to raise the percentage of royalties pledged to the Abington Ferret Refuge to 50%, rather than the meager 10% I was hoping for.
You gotta keep them happy, innit?
Maisy Robbins, allied with her ferret Valkerie and pony Sparky, has chattered her way from being a temporary side-kick to becoming the main POV who has reduced the protagonist to the role of side-kick and banished the other main character altogether. This is fast becoming her book.
Currently she is planning to defend the Wyrde Woods setting in 1940 against invasion. With allies on her right and left flank and a wild bunch she has named the Wyrde Warriors (armed with spears, bows and arrows) building 'Fort Defiance' in the middle of the woods she is reasonably confident a possible German invasion is doomed to failure.
If this sounds far-fetched then I'll happily refer you to dozens of newspaper clippings from the 1940s describing gangs of English children building redoubts on the common because NO WAY were those Nazis going to take their playgrounds. It might bring a smile to your face, but remember what you were like aged 10-11-12? Dead serious about childish mischief and savvy enough to transform it into reality.
If I keep up at Forgotten Road at the same pace I am managing now an autumn publication date is possible.
Truth be told, Maisy aint giving me a whole lot of choice.
She also told me to raise the percentage of royalties pledged to the Abington Ferret Refuge to 50%, rather than the meager 10% I was hoping for.
You gotta keep them happy, innit?
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