Two years ago I wrote a steampunk novel, called Iron Virgin, which in NaNo terms was a winner. This time round, having dipped last year into alternate history with a post World War II adventure called Ersatz (again a winner), I am back in the retro land of stiff upper lips, top hats, goggles and airships.
This year's effort is for now titled Gemstone.
Once more my main character is female (I have about zero interest in writing about males, but so it goes) and my heroine Gemma -- geddit? -- is in fact a brave female mountaineer who reserves corset-wearing for when she isn't scrambling the heights of the world. Of course it isn't solely about that, but for now it gives me a platform.
Oh yes, and Gemma is not afraid of heights. As I can get dizzy standing on a chair I can write about someone who gazes down from on high without a shred of fear, unless of course she somehow loses her nerve...
We will, as they say, see what we write because my idea is usually to have a plan in my head and then see where the story takes me. Probably a bad way to write but I need to be surprised too from time to time and writing for me is a journey of discovery.
Okay, enough of the prevarication. Time to get novel writing.
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