Allison Kohn's Blog - Posts Tagged "writing"
Writing the Baker family saga
It started as a simple one book adventure about the Baker family's trek across the continent to the Willamette Valley in 1842. the trouble was, there were five of Jonathan Baker's children and all of them had at least one child. That meant I was writing about twenty different people, not to mention the Thomases and the red haired man, etc. I knew who i was talking about, because I knew them all personally, but my readers usually got confused. I sent my first draft to Thomas Nelson, who wrote me a long letter about editing it and getting the words all spelled correctly. I took this as a total rejection and it wasn't until years later I found out publishers simply send a form rejection slip when they aren't interested in your work. through the years of sending numerous work off to publishers, the only other time a publisher wrote to me was when I submitted a science fiction fantasy. She sent the rejection form along with a letter telling me how much she enjoyed my story, but...
Hopping right off that bunny trail, I decided to make the story of the baker family into a number of books with the focus on one member at a time. Alice Mae, later known only as Alice, always played a large part of the other's stories, simply because she was the focal point in my mind. She is the embodiment of all my faults. The other characters developed themselves by way of acquaintances and family members.
Hopping right off that bunny trail, I decided to make the story of the baker family into a number of books with the focus on one member at a time. Alice Mae, later known only as Alice, always played a large part of the other's stories, simply because she was the focal point in my mind. She is the embodiment of all my faults. The other characters developed themselves by way of acquaintances and family members.
