Tag: writing fiction

Cozy Mystery, inspiration, Uncategorized

Talk to your Character

carolyncordon

A dear friend of mine, Martin Christmas, is a fine poet, and even finer human being. He is a doer, an encourager, and as I said, a dear friend. Martin knows of my current troubles (a fractured ankle), and he is making sure my brain is still good, even if my ankle is busted.

I appreciate his effort, and his ideas that it might be a good chance to work on my written work. I agree that is should be a good chance for that, I’m comfortably seated, my laptop on my lap, with plenty of power available. So why is there no action going on with my proposed series of Cozy Mysteries, featuring Meredith, my main character.

I want this to happen, this series of books. I did lots of work on them earlier, perhaps when I was in hospital? Or it may have been before that. Hmm, before, I think. My mind is a little befuddled with all of the pain relief I had been taking, over the past fortnight … but anyway, I did manage to have a Talloola township thought while in hospital. I thought that I had to have a hospital in my town in my books, Talloola, and there had to be a murder in the Talloola Hospital, for Meredith to solve that crime.

I haven’t got much further than that thought, consciously, but I hope my subconscious mind may have been fiddling with the idea. To that end, I am going to do some free writing, chatting with Meredith, and see where (or if) things go. Meredith and I are good friends, she is a bit like the me I’d like to be, taller, prettier, a working woman, with a hunk of a football player as her love interest. (that bit is not me, my love interest is the wonderful man who is looking after me at the moment (and always).

So excuse me, while I go away and talk with my main character. If anything happens, and I sincerely hope something will happen, well, I’ll come back here and talk about it! I am very grateful to have Martin as a good friend, am hope I can live up to his (and my) expectations of what I am capable of doing!

Writing a whole series of Cozy Mysteries was a big project, but if I can live through a fractured ankle, and do it well, there’s no telling what else I can do, Ciao!

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Social Media, Novels, Poetry, Blogger

carolyncordon

This blog post brings together some of my used and usual writing styles, all into one post. a poet friend, suggested I write a poem about something I’d written in a Facebook comment and the more I thought about it, the better it seemed as an idea. So I did it. I can’t decide whether to post the poem here, or attempt to get it published somewhere else first.

By the time I finish writing and posting this blog post, I will have made up my mind about it all. So here are my comments to clarify (maybe!) what I’m writing about here.

“I’m feeling very radical at the moment, this morning after the basket of cleaned washing was tipped on the bed, I folded and put away everything, but I DIDN’T MATCH MY OWN SOCKS! I just put them away in my sock drawer in a colourful unmatched JUMBLE!

I’ve been wearing unmatched socks for about six months now, putting together unmatched socks and wearing them like that, so a striped black and white sock on one foot for instance, and a green plain one on the other foot, for instance.

But to not match up any socks at all, that feels really out there!

One day I may even be radical and brave enough to wear striped clothes with something ‘floral”

That’s it, I’ve sent an edited version of my poem off to The Drabble to see if they will publish it on their site – fingers crossed.

Well I didn’t write about novels, but now I’m wondering whether the main character in one of the writing I have on the go might wear unmatched socks too … Who knows what might happen, that’s what I love about writing fiction!

I have to say thank you to Sarah Jane Justice, the poet who suggested I write this poem, Many thanks!