I have recently become hooked on the Starz show Outlander. I had read the books a while ago and I enjoyed them, but now the show is front and center on my radar. I love the opening theme song, I think the cast is great and Scotland is beautiful. It is a fun show to watch, though it has its happy moments and some quite grim moments, I keep thinking about how the author saw the characters in the beginning when she first began the story. They are long and hefty books and make a great show.

I can see where the story makes a better tv show than it would a movie and that brings about the thought, is my “movie” in my head, the scenes that I am writing, more of a tv show or a movie? What is the format? I have heard so many people talk about what it takes to write a book and now with self publishing it seems much more possible. I recently read about how the author of Outlander wrote it as a practice book, and that is something I understand. (I also love it that she has Mountain Dew for breakfast!)

So a practice novel is underway!