Dark and Light.

The world of the Vampire is a dark, exciting, dangerously seductive place. I love combining the darkness with the light. Usually, in recent books I've read, the Vampire can be changed or made see the error of his ways, but how would it play out if some of the darkness rubbed of on the heroine?

I'm finding out and having fun with it.

Talking of the light, thank the gods that summer is almost upon us.

I have a longing for Wicklow now, long days of reading and writing, going to the beach and sipping wine as I watch the sunset. Heaven.

Also some old friends from Oz are making their way to Ireland, they will be here on the 8th of May, really looking forward to seeing them as it has been ten years since the last time we met. That's how long it has been since my own Aussie adventure.

The other side of the coin is I'm losing a good friend and cousin as she embarks on her own adventure across Oz and the U.S. I am really looking forward to her blog though, it will be very entertaining.

Here is the link if any of you are interested.

http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwendylooo.blogspot.com%2F&h=e6620.

The start of May brings many celebrations, birthdays, anniversaries and communions.

On the side of darkness?

Well the first anniversary of my Mams death will be on the 23rd of May and her first birthday away from home is the 24th of May.

Remembering all that happened this time last year has made recent weeks a struggle.

However I do struggle on, with the help of great mates, my beautiful children and a very witty partner.

I have often read, or been told that we should use our feelings to put more heart into our writing and characters, to draw upon our own experiences to bring life to the story. I think nearly every writer does this naturally. However in life we must be able to decipher our own reactions and feelings before we can understand them. In doing so, I believe we can start to heal ourselves and bring great spirit into our writing.

My story is about good and evil, light and dark.

My life has darkness but is also filled with light.

So I continue my Journey with deep sorrow, bright thoughts and great hope.

I have up till now kept my writing and my blog to myself, today in the spirit of Light and Dark I am opening myself up to my twitter friends.

Please feel free to leave your comments,

good or bad.

Laura.

Making Progress

I have been finding it a little more difficult to actually sit down and write, this is due to the fact that I have become addicted to both Twitter and Farmville. The farm is going to have to go, I'm amazed at myself, such a huge amount of time wasted on a virtual farm. I actually sat in a pub discussing my farm with a friend as though it was a real place. Not so unusual for me I tend to live in my imagination most of the time. However my friend who doesn't even like to read was enthusiastically discussing her farm too.

The Twitterverse on the other hand is an amazing place, I don't really have many friends who understand why I like to write let alone would write themselves. Twitter has opened up a whole new world to me, connecting me with all levels of writers and interesting people, I'm loving it.

My WIP has suffered content a little, yet I feel will benefit in the long run. My creative juices are flowing and talking with other writers gives a certain kind of support.

So thank you to all my twitter friends.

I'm currently making plans for Lily's escape from a little pub in Wicklow.....so much fun and after seeing a couple of Frank Delaney's tweets warning about copy rite laws,I have been working on some song lyrics....I even have a great new character... he's a rock n roll newbie who thinks he's a legend, for another time, another story.

Well that's it for now,

Hope the full moon has you as productive and energetic as it has me.

New character

So this morning was just like any other, I got up had my Rubex and got the kids up and out to school.
When I got home I did a few bits around the house and went back out with Emma to do my vibroplates. On a loosing weight buzz at the moment.
So around half ten I sat down at the kitchen table (only room in the house where I can't get access to the Internet) and started writing, cup of coffee beside me.
I knew what I was writing and I knew where the story had to go.
However, out of nowhere appears this new character, just barging her way onto my computer screen. She's extraordinarily bossy, but I like her.

I have to say it really is a big buzz when the book starts to write itself for a while. Although the fact that it's been sitting in my brain for two years and I constantly carry it around with me may have something to do with that too.

Still writing from two POV and I think that's the way it's gotta stay.
SO while still at the beginning of my vampire journey I have to say it's the most fun I have had in years.

Ah it's been ages since I had time to write here, and as I seem to only write for myself I guess it won't matter ;0).

So the snow never appeared on that particular Sunday and it wasn't long before the country turned to slush. It was all soooo depressing.
On the upside my writing is coming along in leaps and bounds.
For the moment I'm writing from my two main characters POV, however I find Lily so much more fun to write that I may just stick with her in the end.
However, every time I think of leaving Daniel out it makes me sad.

What to do...what to do.

So Christmas is over and done with, I'm not sure if I'm happy or sad about that.
Still I always love the start of the new year, it's so fresh and new.
I feel organised and motivated.
On that note I'm pleased to have made some head way in the writing department, my characters are evolving, taking on lives of their own. The story is a lot clearer to me and I'm actually looking forward to seeing where it will go.

New years resolutions:

To write every day,
To lose a stone,
Chuck the cig's,
Be happier.
Ha ha if I can just stick to the first one I will be happy.

The snow is a help to me, I won't venture out of the house. A good friend of mine broke her leg in two places on Christmas day, by slipping on the ice. Her lovely boyfriend told her to stop screaming because the neighbours were looking. She didn't get to the hospital till the next day. I'm supposing it's because he's male and thought she was making a fuss about nothing.
I mean it's not like she had man flu or anything serious.
One operation later and she's still in terrible pain.
So I'm staying indoors where it's safe and warm, plus I'm getting plenty of writing done, whoo hooo.

Wishing you all a very happy new year.

Be careful out there with the big freeze and all that snow,

Sundays gonna be a doozie.

I'm seriously considering redefining my idea of vamps after today, some of those shops up the north were quite crafty about sucking all the money I had out of my pocket. Make sure you check the exchange rate before buying anything. However to be fair I did snag quite a few bargains so can't complain too much.

We dropped the kids to school this morning and drove straight to our shopping destination ,after hours of shopping, walking, collecting kids and finally reaching my sofa the last thing I felt like doing was writing but my list insisted I at least make a start, so the outline of my first chapter is set, well sort of.

I'm still not sure whose voice I should use. Should I tell the story from one point of view or two. My two main characters have very different voices and opinions and so on. I want to tell both their sides of the story but I think that would reveal too much. To tell it from one side leads to more tension...doesn't it????

All opinions on this gratefully received.

My plan for tomorrow
......get my outlines into black and white.

The Start

I have been procrastinating for quite a few years now, my goal is to write my novel, a vampire novel.
Of course with twilight doing the rounds vampires have become fairly fashionable, I however was a big fan of all fangs since reading Anne rice as a young teenager. Even before those fab books I was hooked on anything witchy or magical.
I love to get as far away from reality as possible, not that my own reality is terrible or anything like that. In fact my life is pretty great to be honest but I have a yearning for the world of fantasy and am drawn to the darkside.

So I have decided to procratinate no longer.
I have made many starts to my book, all of which have been thwarted in one way or another, including the theft of my laptop which contained the first six chapters of my story. Naturally being the scatter brain I am, I didn't make a back up copy, no not I. I just merrily went about thinking my world was all sunshine and roses and there was no way my writing would be lost.

I have learned my lesson my friends and will now be rigourous in my back up duties.

Having lived with the characters floating around in my head for the last year or so I've gotton to know them pretty well and will now set them free, allowing them to live their lives on paper.

Tommorow, all things going well I will start chapter one again, thats if I'm not too knackered from the trip up north for the christmas shopping.

Oh dear am I PROCRASTINATING?????

Never....... I have a list made and once thats done it magically becomes law, I can never disobey the list.

My vampire journey starts here.