Thanks Amanda for taking the time to read and comment and for the shares on Twitter 🙂 great to meet you. I’m glad you found the post interesting 🙂 ps im a total chocoholic!!

Haha glad to be helpful… I think?! Love that post – particularly the bit about what it does to our energy and blocking- now that’s a reaaaally interesting point, and possibly a can of worms for another day! Or at least not at 4:48am when I’m being an insomniac !

You really do get me thinking! Damn woman, he mutters! Thanks Sacha. Have a look at this post; it’s about memoire but you might find it interesting as it is on this subject. https://youwhoineverknew.wordpress.com/2015/01/30/first-is-worst-second-is-best/ Mom writes some good stuff if you want to have a look at her posts.

This is very interesting, and thanks for writing such a personal and honest comment. I know exactly what you mean about editing for fear of a loved one seeing out of context emotion. It’s odd but why is it that when something’s written down its so much worst? You could probably ‘say’ whatever it is you wrote and it wouldn’t seem as bad. But God forbid you write it down and commit it to paper, well, then, of course you meant exactly what you wrote when you were blind with fury, but, you didn’t when you shouted it… You know?! It’s silly that it can be taken so out of context. Reminds me of Bridget Jones and Darby reading her diary right at the end. I wanted to pick up on your other point… About raw emotion, and then fact a) it takes time to be honest in a diary, and what does that mean? Do we know we are lying to ourselves? Is that the point? Do our characters lie to themselves? Probably – but like us its context dependent. But maybe we can use that in our stories. The other point… ‘Raw’ emotion – that. That right there, is what I want people reading my work to feel. So if I portray that in my own personal journal, then what is it I can learn, and take with me? What is it that I am doing that shows such raw emotion, and how do I convey that with my characters?! I haven’t written a journal for a while – I temporarily did when I was having fertility issues, but gave up when I fell pregnant. Maybe I need to go back and analyse some of my entries to see what it is, how things are phrased that will help me with character emotion…. Hmm I feel another blog post coming! I’ve rambled enough for now!!

Yes – point well made – and very well reminded!!!! really ought to finish the interview and add it to the post – have so far only added my template for others to use! Completely forgot I needed to add the finished thing!

Can’t wait to reads Lilah’s 🙂

I can’t wait to see your interview. I love looking at different interviews templates and character charts and such. 🙂

Thanks Rachel. Funny you mention the character interviews that’s my next post in this series! I’ve created my own interview template because I couldn’t quite find what I was looking for. I saw your character interviews – I really liked your concept of questions for the author followed by questions for the character. Think you just posted about Lilah – will have a read after work 🙂