“Being the oldest biddy in a town of old biddies isn’t easy but she’s doing it with grace and good humour!” This is Gert,who is one of the characters in my current major writing work in progress, which will be a series of ‘Cozy Mystery’ books set in the town of Talloola.
I’m working on creating books with gentle murders and small town politics, as well as a bit of footy talk, and there will be dogs, some anyway, who may be useful to my amateur sleuth, Meredith.
I’m excited about the idea of writing these books, and have a lot of planning underway already, just a few days after thinking up this idea …
This series of books feels like what I’ve been building up towards writing, for many years. There have been some sideways steps, that could have been failed attempts at writing in other genres, but were in fact learning exercises, and helped me to realise what I really wanted to write!
I have a main character I want to be good friends with, a maybe love interest I’m a bit in love with myself (I’m far too old for him though and of course I’m married my main character, Meredith, isn’t though …), there’s dear old Gert, and a nasty (and possibly corrupt) mayor who tests every boundary there is, and always gets away with it. And there’s the trans hairdresser, Steph, at her business “Hair It Is” who hears many things in her little hairdresser shop (and who may have some hidden knowledge about the Mayor’s life from before he ever came to Talloola, and there are many, many more interesting Talloola-ites.
Meredith has a big love of dogs, and dogs always love here, it’s almost as though they can read each other’s minds … (or maybe they can read each other’s minds, in some weird way).
I’m loving writing this, so far I have titles for more than ten books, and have begun my writing, with more that 5000 words written of the first book, which will be the second book in the series. I also have a few hundred words of the first book in the series written, and some notes for other titles.
I’m excited about this, did I mention that?!
Carolyn Cordon - Creative 
sounds really good! 🙂
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Thanks Wendi. I’m getting quite excited about it all! The writing, when I sit down to write it, flows along well, and it’s so much fun to write!
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so very happy for you Carolyn! 🙂
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Today I’ve been making up a list of characters who will be in the whole series, as well as adding details about each of the books I already have names for.
It’s been fun, and I’m gaining a greater knowledge of possible book details, and of my characters, This is soooooo much fun!
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so neat to be able to feel the enthusiasm in your words.
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I am looking forward to reading your cozy mysteries!
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I’m looking forward to writing them Marie!
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Thanks, Marie, You will have already heard some parts of it, because I’m using some of my ‘writing prompt’ pieces Alex gives us, from our writing group. I’ve just changed the thriller I was writing into a ‘Cozy Mystery’, some of the bits will fit in, with a little editing, and as I find snippets, I’m thinking about what kind of a mystery they could fit with. I’m having so much fun doing this, it’s much more ‘my thing’ than the Thriller was, and I’m able to use the same characters I’d already created.
As I said, it’s huge fun!
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