Ask the Author: M.P. Ward
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M.P. Ward
Try to stay with one character as much as possible. Take the reader on your journey. Make them see through the character eyes. Write because you love it, write because you're a storyteller.
M.P. Ward
I am writing a book about learning to fly microlights, but of course being me, there's a lot more to it than that. At the moment it's called 'It shouldn't happen to a Microlight Pilot,' but that might change.
Nine months after writing this the book is finished and currently with my agent. Between time I sent a chapter from the book called flying solo to a writing competition and it won.
Now I am starting my next book LANDS END. It is about the lives of a group of people from different backgrounds and circumstances, who for various reasons come together at Lands End.
Nine months after writing this the book is finished and currently with my agent. Between time I sent a chapter from the book called flying solo to a writing competition and it won.
Now I am starting my next book LANDS END. It is about the lives of a group of people from different backgrounds and circumstances, who for various reasons come together at Lands End.
M.P. Ward
I read about people and events and question, motives, relationships, what if I turn things around? There has to be problems that answering. I add developing ideas to real places and if it excites me, I have to write it.
M.P. Ward
I had previously written Sam and the sea witch and was now looking for a suitable location where the teenagers could go camping. It had to be on Bodmin (Sam and the Beast of Bodmin Moor) and within riding distance from the place they live. I got out the map of Cornwall and St Cleer seemed to be perfect. I soon discovered it used to be known as Hell up by Liskeard (even better) It was as if it was destiny. Later I discovered St Cleer was the resting place of the Last King of Cornwall. It was with further research about King Doniert that the story came together and so Sam to the Ends of the Earth was born.
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