Introducing the Characters...

Person of the day: Heath Ledger
Word of the day: arabesque
Quote of the day: Here's much to do with hate, but more with love

Just over a year ago I had my first seeds of thought for a novel. I'd begun many novels before that and had even more ideas, but I never got very far with any of them, more because of dislike of my own writing than anything else. But these seeds continued to grow as such. A little over a year on and I've got the plot planned out, characters becoming more complete by the day and nearly four chapters written. It seems very little but, as my family and friends know, I am someone who takes a lot of time over things. My first challenge was to begin writing my ideas down, which I succeeded in doing fairly quickly after my initial idea. My second challenge was to write the first chapter, which I have to say took a long time to complete. My third challenge is to complete my novel. This I am nowhere near doing, but I am more determined to do than I have ever been before.

My first spark of inspiration for this novel was on July 8th 2007. It may seem strange, but on that day two men met for the second time in a Wimbledon final: Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal. I expected something similar to the previous year, but I was pleasantly surprised and altogether inspired by the fantastic tennis they both played. And at some point during that match I felt all my passion for writing come back from a little holiday it had taken. I was extremely excitable and had ideas streaming from my mind. Since then there has been a constant stream of thoughts.

Here I post the first of what I hope will be several entries charting the progress of my novel. The first shall introduce the characters of my novel.

Emily Keats - the heroine
Alejandro Lorca
Philip Eliot - the narrator

These three are the most important in the novel and will appear (or at least be spoken about) in pretty much every scene in the novel. Of next importance are:

Benjamin Eliot - older brother to Philip
Juliet - wife of Benjamin
Agnes - friend to all the above
Ivy - the antagonist
Alejandro's older brother
Alejandro's younger sister
Alejandro's older sister

There are other characters who appear during the story, but some of these characters may need to be cut out due to number and length. I will update on these character once I am further into my novel.