Published by deborah.woehr on 02 Feb 2008 at 06:23 am
Virtual Blog Tour - Days 1 and 2
Day One begins this tour at Rose Marie Wolf’s author blog, where I’ve written a guest post about how I came up for the idea for Prosperity.
Writing Prosperity 1998 The idea for novel came to me as a “mind movie” of a woman who was standing on a small island in the middle of Hell, searching for the soul of her late husband. It was to be a book about a man who used black magic to lure an unsuspecting town into his cult. That was the very beginning.
Fast-forward one year. The story wasn’t coming together as I hoped that it would. I didn’t know enough about black magic to create a plausible story. And, I had way too many characters vying for attention.
Fast-forward two years. I had long since ditched the idea of black magic and cults. My characters were still unknown to me, although I was getting to know my main character, Amanda. The title of my novel was Prosperity, a once-thriving town turned into a literal ghost town. I was still having problems creating a cohesive plot. Who are the ghosts? Why are they haunting the area?
Day Two, I am stopping at Andrea Allison’s Ghost Stories blog. Andrea’s blog has always been one of my favorite places to lurk because, as you know, I enjoy the subject of the paranormal. Just Saying Hello isn’t a full-fledged ghost story, but an event that happened to me.
