I sort of cheated on last night’s challenge and used my character Dori’s most recent journal entry, with the introductory text from her first journal entry. I did write the original journal entry in less than 90 minutes on Sunday though, so I used it. You can read about her “gone forever” brother Danny here at her journal / blog.
Poor Dori, cheated in life, cheated in death.
I’ve learned the hard way that starting a novel usually means I write like crazy fleshing out some wonderful new character, fall in love with her, only to be told it’s boring infodump. Slash and burn time. All those lovely character building words down the toilet. Ouch. While I understand the need to start a story off where the story truly begins, I like to understand and read about characters too. What’s the compromise? I’ve created an infodump space.
For this first Teaser Friday for My Fair Vampire, I’m directing you to an ancillary blog I created for my heroine. There she will tell you more about herself, provide more of her back story and share anecdotal side tales as the main story progresses. Each time she makes a new post in her journal, I’ll post a link here.
Claire Gillian 