Peter Macinnis's Blog - Posts Tagged "ya"
Slow and steady wins the race
I'm just cruising. The gold project is going well, but it still lacks a direction. For about four and a half years now, I have been scheming to do a series of YA historical fiction, drawing on the areas in which I have particular strength: maritime history, Australian history, especially on migration, settlement and exploration (and my recent work has added the gold rush era to that), plus 19th century science and technology, including rockets and explosives.
The challenge will be to do the content lightly, so that I don't write a po-faced didactic diatribe.
I sat in a Parliamentary committee of enquiry yesterday, and in the space of 15 minutes, carved my original too-ambitious plan for eight books down to a more solid four books.
The idea makes me want to dance, and that may mean that gold gets shoved back, yet again. Although two of the planned books involve gold in some way.
I'm still trying to work out how to take the hero to Kefallonia, which in his time, was a British possession. If I can make that work, guess where I'll be forced to go and pig out on choriatiki in September, as the holiday season winds down!
The challenge will be to do the content lightly, so that I don't write a po-faced didactic diatribe.
I sat in a Parliamentary committee of enquiry yesterday, and in the space of 15 minutes, carved my original too-ambitious plan for eight books down to a more solid four books.
The idea makes me want to dance, and that may mean that gold gets shoved back, yet again. Although two of the planned books involve gold in some way.
I'm still trying to work out how to take the hero to Kefallonia, which in his time, was a British possession. If I can make that work, guess where I'll be forced to go and pig out on choriatiki in September, as the holiday season winds down!
