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Re: Ask the Author
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Now for my question - Is there something about the human body endurance and 8 days? I mean, Sarah was missing for 8 days in Brave Heart. In Adrift, William is again without food and warmth for about 8 days. Is it just a coincidence?
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I really like your writing.
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Wonderful!!! Glad you're writing more. I'd like to know what was in the hold that shouldn't have been. And would like to know more about William and Sarah and Myra and Louise and the town...Loved the first two books even though I read them out of order. These were great as stand-alone books as well. Thank you so much for writing these. Do you have any other series planned?Charlie Sheldon wrote: ↑04 Apr 2019, 15:09 All good questions. I have completed a third tale in the group, which answers some of what you are asking, and I am now finishing a fourth, though as I work on it I am thinking maybe they should be combined into a pretty big third tale answering these questions and others....my instinct right now, today, is to have one big book, with maps and such, maybe 150,000 words in total (length of 2 books) but it depends on what my publisher thinks. It's great readers want to know what happens of course.....
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I am also looking forward to reading the third book. All the best as you go about it.Charlie Sheldon wrote: ↑04 Apr 2019, 15:09 All good questions. I have completed a third tale in the group, which answers some of what you are asking, and I am now finishing a fourth, though as I work on it I am thinking maybe they should be combined into a pretty big third tale answering these questions and others....my instinct right now, today, is to have one big book, with maps and such, maybe 150,000 words in total (length of 2 books) but it depends on what my publisher thinks. It's great readers want to know what happens of course.....
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I am not sure I have answer to these questions. Writing for me is less inspiration than a demand, almost an illness, at times, so I keep at it. Obviously the scenes and places in my stories are written better if I have experienced them myself, because then I can see what is happening. When I write I see the action, and then try to describe the action and the scene with a minimum of words, just enough for the reader to fill in the rest. Obviously with this series I came upon a rich vein of material and am having fun with it. As regards the structure and phrases, I cannot really describe that either. I do know that once I get a draft sort of written I need to sit on it a while then go back and start removing stuff, trying to cut away everything not needed for the scene. At the very end, where I am now in the next books in the series, I will even go through the whole manuscript one word at a time to make sure I don't have too many repeat usages of that word, verb, noun, whatever, so it wont be repetitive. This is all very subjective, by the way....
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