Working on a new book
February 3rd, 2011
I’m getting close to done with the outline phase of the new book, an as-yet-untitled YA mystery set in Tacoma. I’m really excited about it. I can hear the voice of the main character rattling around inside my head.
I’m trying to think of a way to blog the book, but don’t want to force it. Letter Off Dead worked because it was a series of letters. But a mystery novel won’t work that way. I guess I could just do really short chapters. Any ideas, anyone?
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Hmmmm . . . soliciting ideas from the unwashed masses. Remember what Steve Jobs said: “People don’t know what they want until you give it to them!! Focus groups be damned!!” (The first sentence is an actual quote, albeit from memory.) But perhaps getting a series of lame suggestions (let’s be honest people? Are we published writers?) will spark a good one in you. So . . . perhaps a riff on your short chapter idea. But the conceit could be that each snippet is written in first person in the voice of the different characters. Would allow all kinds of fun opportunities to recount the same events, but from entirely different perspectives, filling in more details, and showing how the same thing can have entirely different meanings depending on who sees it, and from where.