Where to go next... part two

In the recent weeks I have worked my arse off doing this book and hope it will pay off as my next section is, if I say so myself, awesome. I can't say much, obviously, but I have a book on Human Osteology (by William M Bass) that I treasure above all my textbooks, that has come in very handy recently. The doctor in this section is based on what I wanted to be before I realised I want to write full-time. I wanted to deal with bones and find out who people were but I found that I can't do that until i find a course that actually offers me help, rather than just ignoring my problems. Anyway, she is an expert in Neurology rather than Osteology but has a mind like an Aladdin's cave. Most of my characters are improving into people: Alan and Jo are moving forward as a right pair of Jonathan Creeks; Tim is harassing everyone and no-one's caught the criminals. Yet.
Just a quick update to say I'm still working on it and will be for sometime. I hope to be done by Xmas, because if I don't set a deadline, I'll never do it... Wish me luck!!
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Planning for the book and afterwards

My book is set over three weeks in Liverpool involving gangs, Police Investigations and explosions! I nearly have the three weeks planned, I just need to assign times for each event so that it flows properly. Then I can type it up and get it proofed and published!! I really can't wait to hold and read a copy of my own book. My book, that I wrote with so much support from friends and family. I just hope people will like it and read it and maybe even buy it. I'm trying to make it readable and re-readable. Of all the books I have, I'll reread half again, most more than five times. I love to read and now I'm developing a love of writing because it's what I want. Matt is happy for me to do it because he knows I can do it. Family have never really known but I'm unsure as to whether I should use my real name or make one up... I like my name but I don't want old friends who didn't know about it to judge, and other general readers to judge me by the name. What to do?
I'm enjoying it, I'm really getting into writing about people I've made up and getting them to function properly. As people. My scenes need polishing up, so I type them up on the laptop and edit them that way. Saving the rainforests, single-handedly! I put in a few 'Easter Egg' references to show what I like to read and watch, like CSI references and Star trek, I think, makes it in somewhere.
When I have more done, I'll put up my first draft of the blurb! Hope it draws people in! I'd read it but then again, I'm biased...

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Progress At Last!

I am finally getting to where I wanted to be a few years ago. I have finally got my characters to be people! VK is now the good girl who turns bad, rather than the b***h of the book. She has a past tragedy and she moved on but it comes back to haunt her. That's the plan anyway, but I'm concentrating on writing it in order as I did that wrong a while ago. I tried backwards writing a few weeks ago, also not good. I now have a better plan layout and notebook specifically for this, so I'm not getting my pages in a muddle anymore!
I got up to Chapter three in my second draft this afternoon, and if I do say so myself it's goood! It's set over three weeks of the investigation into a robbery and the resulting gang warfare as the two main gangs fight it out. She gets caught up in it as her family is victimised. It all gets a little hairy but it'll be awesome when it's done.
I'll be getting it published at some point so that'll be a big triumph for me, up there with marrying matt and having our children. It'll mean I'm not just some waste of space that can't achieve anything. I can do anything I want and this is what I want. There will be more from me, in this series and others. That's how I roll.