Do you ever think about who would play your characters if your story turned into a movie? With all of the Oscar buzz and the golden globes and such going on right now, it is something I think of occasionally. Do you envision the characters in your mind and think they look like so and so? I don’t usually, but lately I have been tempted.

I also think about the time and the place of the story and how that might change how people look and act in comparison to now. In the future – at some point – will so many people be of mixed race that it ceases to be a big deal? In my stories most of the characters are of mixed descent, with a few different phenotypes thrown in for good measure.

 

Phenotypes- “Observable traits”- what people actually see, height, eye color, hair color and such.

Apparently I have been on WordPress now for a full year. Sometimes I find it hard to believe that I started thinking about this a little over a year ago and I have been working toward MAKING it happen! Stuff will get written this year!

 

It is freezing cold here in Indiana, makes one want to curl up with a good book in front of the fireplace. Preferably, with a hot drink, or maybe many hot drinks, I may need one shortly. I have been working on some of my chapters, moving them to first person and it makes me want to engage more with the environment and the food and drink of the characters. For part of the story, they are on a starship for a long period of time and though I can compare it to life aboard a modern day submarine, I am trying to think of ways that it may be vastly different.

Questions to think about:

If you were on a starship, what menu item would you most want to have served?

What are the official sanctioned drinks and which ones would the crew and/or passengers sneak aboard?

Writers write and authors publish. Well that’s one of the many things I have heard about writing over time now that I have decided that maybe I should share some of what I am writing. For a long time, my writings were for me, and only me. Once in a great while I might share a portion of something I wrote with someone, but that was quite rare. Now I am learning more about how this whole publishing thing works and finding out that there are tons of other writers out there just like me.

I have started to feel like a writer; as opposed to writing was something I did now and again. Now I am writing more frequently (and consistently) and am pursuing the goal of publishing something. I keep asking myself, why? It’s not the money, though that would be nice, do I really feel compelled to share these stories with others? Apparently yes, I do want to share these stories and talk about them, talk to other people and see what they think about them and the best way to do that is to get these stories “out there”.

In 2015 I decided I was a writer. Now in 2016, I want to become an Author!