Archive for May, 2007
May 21, 2007
THIS ONE’S FOR REAL …
There’s a special kind of energy that comes from setting a story in your home environment — for this WIP I’m having fun making my scenes real. Really real :). And with it comes a bonus — I’m finding that checking out the locations and technicalities is actually helping bring the book to life in my mind, in a different way. I can literally feel my characters around me, almost see them in the crowds. It’s a fun change.
And check out the tree in the pic above – there actually is one, right alongside a thick rusting pipe, that my hero can use to climb up the back wall of the gondola building. Once up on that level, he needs to maneuver onto the roof of that ticket booth in the photo below, and swing himself up to the railing. The brown door with the no-entry sign is the cable car control booth. From this level he can … well, that’s for the book 
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May 19, 2007
THE NUTS AND BOLTS
I now know exactly where to position my hero when the cable car docks. And I know exactly how to get him up there. The bad guys will be in that glass control booth in the centre.
I love the way writing a novel can make you see your own world with new eyes. I first traveled in that sky tram when I was 12 years old and heading up Grouse Mountain for my first ever ski lesson. It was also the first time in my life I had ever seen snow. I was both thrilled and petrified at the idea of sliding down that mountain on two planks.
Never did I dream I would return 31 years later — after travelling continents and what seems like several lifetimes – a published author seeking a way to set the show-down action scene of my current novel there. With a daughter the same age as I was, standing by my side.
And she’s an ace skier to boot 
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May 18, 2007
IN THE NAME OF RESEARCH
I took a little trip yesterday — needed to check some facts for my WIP. And no, I did not feed the wolves. I did get some pics for a ‘photo-tour’ of my book, though. And I worked out how to get my hero up onto the cable car as it pulled out of the loading dock.
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May 16, 2007
INSPIRATION
I found something along my path today. It’s long, but it’s a beautiful column, as most of hers are. And it’s what I needed right then. Take a look — The Terror and Joy of Writing, from Barbara Samuel, who has the voice of an evolved soul.
May 15, 2007
LOCAL AIR
I got this from the blog of Jessica Faust — according to the Herald Tribune article, the business of predicting a bestseller is a serendipitous mystery to the publishing industry. They’ll know it when they see it. So let the imagination take flight, folks :).
Jessica’s blog, BTW, has been added to my list of morning must-stops.
The plane dock was my afternoon stop.
My Path: 1.5 hours on hot sunny trails at slow pace. Mountain air. Fabulous.
Back to the deadlines …
May 14, 2007
TIME OUT
Just to re-charge the muse between chapters, then it was back to deadline. What can I say? The sun was beckoning. And yes, I call this work
