In Romania for the next 6 months
Posted by Lon Widdicombe on May 18, 2008
Hello all,
I’m in Romania now and already miss my family. However, for every downside there is an upside. I’ve been writing like mad and now have more then 80 pages written. I’ve been writing some back story and it has really grown in scope. I envisioned four or five pages and will end up with an entire chapter in the book. The reason for the growing is two fold. First, the back story involves a battle and I really like to write these battle scenes. The Second, I just created an entire underlying devious plan for the antagonist. This plan fits in nicely with the overarching storyline so I’m running with it. I have discovered that writing about devious and bad things are really fun. I guess it’s like actors that say it’s more fun to play the bad guy then the good guy, (they’re right).
I have continued to read a lot and have just completed the second book in the “Jason Wander Series.” ORPHANAGE is the first book’s title and ORPHAN’S DESTINY the second. I’m just starting the third book now, ORPHAN’S JOURNEY. They are good books and the author, Robert Buettner, has two more in the series coming. So if you are in need of a new series to start the summer of right then this would be a good one. He is another former military officer turned professional writer so he and John Hemry give me hope that I can succeed at this someday. Robert Buettner has a wordpress blog and I’ll add it to the blog roll on the right side. He has a post, How to complete a New-York-published novel, dated May 14, 2008. It was very interesting to read and if you have an idea that you would like to write a novel someday it is very illuminating.
I’m giving a lot of advice on books and such through this writer’s blog, but I hope you don’t mind.
