Writing
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Blood and Moonlight
Moonlight’s kind of romantic, isn’t it? A whimsical soft light that adorns the world, turning everything a shade of blue/grey… (Insert screeching brake sound here.) But wait.Blood in moonlight doesn’t sound so romantic, yet that’s what I needed to research in one of my writing sessions. Actually, what colour is blood in moonlight?My brain jumped to the usual rational conclusions and acted all sure of itself, but I wasn’t convinced. Helloooo Google! What did I just read?Must be some dud site.No, here it is again.Blood, in moonlight… is red. Seems I’m not only a sceptic of my brain’s opinion, but Google’s as well. I needed to see it with my own eyes. I…
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So what’s your book about?
So what’s the book about, and what’s its genre? Ugh! That question always shuddered through my body no matter how prepared I was. I’d often stand there stuttering like an idiot. I knew what my book was about, but how to articulate it was the problem. We all deal with labels. They’re shorthand for us, and when people asked about Crown of Fire, they were asking for a label. Something they could assign it and create a narrative we could build an understanding around. Many courses advise authors to force their ideas into a category; to chop and change to fit them into a specific genre, paying particular attention to…
