The Girl Who Broke The Rules.
7/18/2011 10:45:07 PM
I have had an idea in my head for some time now, but have put off writing it down as I feel obliged to complete the edit of Truth Or Dare? and finish writing Broken Down, but the urge was too great to resist the other night, and so I have begun The Girl Who Broke The Rules.
This has already taken a different form to the other two stories and if I can write it the way it appears in my head, it will have that little something extra the first two don’t. Maybe the quirkiness of it will be the main attraction. I am not even sure I can call it a romance – not in the traditional sense – although its main theme is love.
I am attempting to keep the story from one person’s point of view – Mrs Andrews – she doesn’t have a first name yet – and everything we read is what she tells us. It is apparent that she is with her daughter, Lydia, and it is clear something very, very bad has gone down and Mrs Andrews has taken matters into her own hands in an attempt to put right what has gone so wrong.
I was playing about with the opening and put it out on Facebook – it received a positive response, I’m pleased to say. Now, I am thinking about publishing it as a serial on my website, but I’m not sure I am brave enough to commit to that – it would require great self-confidence and I am yet to achieve that with my writing. I am likely to write a chapter, publish it and then consider it not quite right and wish I had not published it until it was entirely written.
So, you see my problem. I am no Charles Dickens. I shaved the beard off for a start.