April 2019: Which Comes First
~ Lynn Collins ~
CTR asked:
Which comes first when you start a new story? The title? The characters’ names? The plot? Explain your starting process and what you need before you can write the first words.
Lynn Collins said:
What comes first for me? The old chicken and egg question. But I have an answer.
Typically, it’s location. I’ll visit somewhere or I’ll go to a bar and think, what a great place to set a story. And that’s what happened with A Member of the Council, the first of my Council series. The Alibi, Parris’ dive bar, is an actual place where I grew up. It’s changed a little in the stories, but when you walk inside from a sunny day, the night encompasses you.
I was just divorced when I stopped at the Alibi for the first time. I was taking night courses in creative writing at the local university and before I went home, I’d stop for a beer and to think about what I’d learned that night.
I did my best writing in crowded, noisy places like dive bars. Mostly people left me alone, but once I’d started going regularly, I was fascinated with the dart boards. I wanted to learn a ‘sport’ that would get me out of the house and around people having fun. So I set a goal to join a dart league the next season and started talking to people who played.
I started playing casually with some of the regulars, and before I knew it, I was dating. That led to my meeting my current husband and we joined a league. Darts and dating and life took over my time and my creative writing classes were put on hold. But one day, many years later, I started writing Parris’ story and realized that The Alibi and the dart world was the perfect place to start.
Parris and Ty, her witch hunter turned soulmate, are too busy with saving the world from a war between their coven and a secret, deadly coven who wants to eliminate everyone without magic blood. They don’t want to live in the shadows like The Council has taught their members for so long.
But once in a while, Parris pulls out her darts and challenges Ty to a game. It’s their foreplay in their relationship.
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A Member of the Council – The Council Series
[Paranormal Romance]
A rogue hunter, a clueless witch and a mission to save an unknowing world.
Parris McCall, owner of the dive bar, The Alibi, has finally constructed a life where her
little quirks don’t show or matter to anyone. As for her grandmother’s warnings that she’s different, well, she’ll cross that bridge if she comes to it.
But when Ty walks into her bar, both lives are instantly changed. If you love romantic suspense with modern day witches and covens, buy the first of three of the Council novellas now.
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