Going Beyond the Blurb

Image by   Gordon Johnson   from   Pixabay   How do you tend to write your novels? Do you start at the first word in chapter one and carry on writing chapters 2,3,4.....and so on until you write The End? Or do you write a random scene at a time, jumping back and forth throughout the story to whichever scene most inspires you at the time?  I always thought I was the former. When I thought about writing, especially when I was little, I would imagine the words flowing out of me consecutively word after word. But with the novel that I'm writing at the moment I'm finding that really difficult. I'm not sure why, but I'm finding it easier to pick a scene that I already have an idea for and writing it down, then the next time I pick a different scene in a completely different part of the book, jumping all over the place hoping that I can somehow find the scenes to fill in the gaps. That's when I realised it was a bit like Jigsaws and Dominoes: Jigsaws - When you write rand

Happy National Writing Day!  I've been meaning to write a blog post for a while now and so I thought this was as good a day as any. It's also coincidently been 3 months since I set this blog up and since then I've read more books than I read in total last year, I'm 1 book ahead of my Goodreads 2020 challenge and I'm almost at the 10k word mark on my current WIP! None of this may seem like very much but it's a hell of a lot further in my writing goals than I was at the beginning of the year so I feel like celebrating.  My reasons for setting up this blog were not just to share with people my thoughts on the books I've read and enjoyed but to also connect with other writers who, like myself, are at the start of their writing journey and to share my ups and downs in the process of writing my first novel. I've shared a few posts over the past three months on my general thoughts on writing from my fear of writing in the first place to my experience on writing

Title: Hedy's War Author: Jenny Lecoat  June: Historical (Non-Fiction) Blurb:  Inspired by the true story of a young Jewish girl - Hedy Bercu - who fled to Jersey from Vienna only to find herself trapped on the island during the German occupation. In June 1940, the horror-struck inhabitants of Jersey watch as the German army unopposed takes possession of their island. Now only a short way from the English coast, the Germans plan their invasion. Hedy Bercu, a young Jewish girl from Vienna who fled to the isolation and safety of Jersey two years earlier to escape the Nazis, finds herself once more trapped, but this time with no way of escape. Hiding her racial status, Hedy is employed by the German authorities and secretly embarks on small acts of resistance. But most dangerously of all, she falls in love with German lieutenant Kurt Neumann -- a relationship on which her life will soon depend. “Our dear Channel Islands are also to be freed today”. This isn't a quote from this boo