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.