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Okay, the plan is in place... so what's the best thing to consider next?
Do I focus on characters; what they look like and their ideals? How about setting... where do they live? What do they do for work? Nope... as the title would suggest, I need to figure out a genre. Work from the outside, in. So what do I do? There are so many genres to choose from. Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Crime, Fantasy, Horror. Well, thankfully I've already given that a great deal of thought. As established in my first blog, my plan is to first simply write and finish a novel. Nothing too complex, nothing that's going to take years perfecting before submitting it into the public domain. I can do all of the clever referencing and focus on accuracy in book two. It would seem like the best path would be to draw on feelings... nothing that requires extensive research. Fantasy is a good idea because it mainly stems from imagination. That's out of the window, though because at present, I don't really have time to construct a new world with communities and clans and such. Romance is also a no-go for me. This is just my personal preference at the moment... never say never, though... just don't let my mother read it! Sci-Fi isn't really my forté either... I was never a fan of Star Trek or Star Wars as a kid. So how about crime fiction? I read a tonne of crime fiction and I'm quite partial to the works of Simon Kernick, Jeffrey Deaver and Sean Black and I actually have a BNC in Forensic Science, so I could quite easily harp on about Luminol, fingerprint analysis, gas chromatography and walking the grid (as Jeffrey Deaver would put it). This is probably a genre I'll return to but my first book needs to be simplistic so for me... it just has to be horror. I remember reading Chasm by Stephen Laws when I was about 14 years old. I'm one of these people who likes to listen to music while I read because I find it really immerses me in the world that the author wants me to sit within. So, I read the whole book whilst listening to the Believe album by Disturbed. I can honestly say that was the most immersive experience I've had with reading (other than, dare I say, the Harry Potter series). Horror has it's challenges, mind you. Do you write in the first person as a person committing the unthinkable? How do you get into that head-space and make it believable? Do you write in great detail, or just stick to the implications and let the reader's mind do the rest? I'll cross that bridge when I come to it. In all fairness, there's a good chance nobody will get to read this practice novel... so I'm not going to worry too much. I'm just going to have some fun with it. Oh, and spoiler alert... there's going to be some supernatural stuff in there, too! This 'working from the outside, in' thing seems like the right way to go. Genre... tick! Next up... rough story line! What do you think? Have I made the right choice? I'd love to hear your thoughts. Until next time!
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Hi, I'm Phil Williams. Welcome to my blog.
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