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Sweet Ginger Poison – Update 1 – May 9, 2008
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Over the past couple of weeks I have been plotting out my new cozy mystery novel, Sweet Ginger Poison. Here’s what I’ve done so far:
Created nineteen primary characters
Nine of these will be suspects. For each character, I have the height, eye color, hair color, other physical characteristics, personality, and relationship to Ginger (the main character). And for each of my characters, I have chosen a popular actor who I could imagine playing the part. Not that you could make a movie with all the stars I’ve selected. It would be too expensive. But having each picture as a reference will help me maintain consistency throughout the book.
Created the back-story of each character
Some are quite detailed. For example: How long has this person lived in Coreyville? If the character’s spouse died—how and when? Did something happen in the character’s past that would make the police more or less likely to suspect that they are the killer?
Created the story of the murder
Readers will not know who the murderer is until near the end of the book (unless they are really clever), but obviously I have to know who the murderer is and exactly how it happened before I start writing. So, I have written all the details of the murder, and how each suspect could have pulled it off.
My characters and my story are becoming more real to me each and every day. Kinda scary, huh?
The books in my Ginger Lightley Series will be longer than my previous efforts. None of the books in the Greg Tenorly Series (posted on this site) are more than 64,000 words. I plan for the books in the new series to be about 80,000 words—which will make for a hardcover or paperback book of approximately 320 pages.
Well, so far I’ve only written about half of Chapter One, so I’d better get to work. Time to drop myself back down into Coreyville and see what my characters are up to. So, goodbye until the next update. And try not to talk to make-believe people in your head as much as I do.
Robert
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