As I finished writing Roddy’s story, I discovered something unexpected.
After twenty-nine books, I’m losing track of my characters. If I wish to make it to fifty books, something needs to be done.
I keep a notebook for each book, filled with details about the characters and plot, and I save the details on One Note, but this method has become tedious and time-consuming. It’s also not practical to take a stack of notebooks on a plane whenever I wish to visit the grandbabies and plan to write.
Maybe it’s my age, maybe I have grandchildren brain, or maybe I just have too many characters.
What prompted this revelation?
As many of you know, I love to include children in my stories. I fell in love with wee Emma and Tommy in Rescued by a Highlander, then Lily and Torrian in Healing a Highlander’s Heart, and it grew from there.
In the middle of Daniel’s story, I introduced another lad named Terric, and it got me thinking. How many wee lads have there been in my books? Many popped into my mind:
Loki, one of my faves
Torrian
Ghillie
Kenzie
Steenie
And the list goes on…and that’s where the problem started.
I could not recall all of the young ones I’ve had in my books. I decided I needed to do something about this, and fast, because I’m not flipping through those twenty-nine notebooks any longer.
I’ve taken on the task of reading all of my books again and putting the details of each into one volume that I can take with me anywhere I go.
When I started this volume, I decided on three pages for each title. For each book, I have separate sections. Here are my sections:
- Characters and brief descriptions
- Where are they traveling? How many towers in Grant Castle?
- Notes about anything unusual: battles, injuries, notable historical figures, etc.
- My favorite scenes in the book with page references to the paperback.
Thus, the roots of my idea.
I plan to write a blog on each of my books, primarily to share my thoughts with you: what I liked about the book, which characters were special to me (besides all of them…LOL…they are my characters, after all), which scenes are my favorites. And occasionally, you may see a comment about a review I’ve read. (Rest assured, I won’t name names.)
Why reviews? Because authors are cautioned against making comments on reviews, but sometimes I really wish to explain something. I’ll start by addressing the question of why eight-year-old Jennie sucked her thumb in my Rescued by a Highlander blog next week.
Come back for more! I’ll post my first one tomorrow and then a new blog every week.
Thanks for reading,
Keira Montclair