BRINGING ALIVE CHARACTERS

The idea to write “The Woman” came to me while on holiday in Cornwall. I would watch the heavy seas crashing upon a rocky shore and envisaged a young woman in the 18th Century witnessing smugglers. The thought that she thinks she is seen, grows into a great plot of intrigue, mystery, murder and kidnapping. All of which multiples as she seeks safety across the Atlantic.

I have written many academically based books but this was my first journey into fiction. I studied historical facts to bring authenticity into the book, but the most creative and absorbing part of it all was in the invention of characters and the lives each would move through in the story of the book. The characters of “The Woman” became a living part of my mind, as each came into the running of the story to bring friendship or danger to the heroine. There are a wonderful variety of characters ranging from those of good nature to one most notably bad. Yet, all play their own part as they desire, plot, and seek to survive in a world being turned upside down by the anger of a people demanding self-rule from a tyrant king and a corruptible government.

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