A New Year, A New Title

Resolutions, anyone? At the top of my list is finishing Book III of the Between the Rivers trilogy. I began "The Chosen Few" a year ago, but the start was premature. Not until I completed Bandeaux Creek could I really get into my new story. Now, I'm loving it--feeling the excitement--like unwrapping a gift. You writers know what I mean.

One of the joys of writing historical fiction is the discovery process. Not searching dusty of tomes of information, but establishing a historical time-line for the story and it's characters. Genealogy charts are a wonderful place to begin. The name of your character may be insignificant--even subject to change, but the facts of birth, life and death, of one particular individual make him who he is. Then, when you place him into the context of the time in which he lived, Viola! Add a new name and you have your discovered your new character.

This time around, I'm into the Thirties. I was born in the mid-thirties, a child of Depression era parents. This should be fun!

More later,

Carolyn