The journey that unravelled was quite unique... we can have the best ideas and the best content in the world, but if we do not grab our readers attention in the first chapter then nobody is going to read it.
Harsh but true. People have ever shrinking attention spans, so we have to hook the reader in from the start. It’s great to paint a picture of scenes, however, how many of them do you skim read those, with more than lenghty descriptions.
The simple truth of the matter is that we come up with an idea for a plot, our content is great, we have worked on it, finished it. Time to edit it. To be honest when I decided to embark on my trilogy of A Fool’s Journey, I wanted to write about truisms of human nature, so thats where I started.
With each book, I wanted to tweak my readers curiosity to explore themselves. So by the time I decided to write my second book I conjured up my vision of Edmund. As a business person myself for the last twenty years or so, I could get into the character of him, feel his drive and his desire to do anything that would make his dream come true. The beauty in writing and creating characters is drama. Making mistakes and just as it cant get any worse, throw another obstacle in their path. The reader loves the excitment.
To be successful in business takes a strong determination. I had decided that Edmund would fall on some bad times and to save face would do anything to keep his head above water. A pillar of society in the industrial city of Manchester in 1925.
He was an outstanding artist and was extremely respected within the circles of the art world. He was driven with great resolve. The best within his field. I felt pleased that he had channelled his story with me through the pen.
Edmund had become a fine figure within society. Sadly, he trusted too easily and suddenly, he had become swept up into an underworld that he had no idea about. A dangerous world, one that he was not prepared for. Not a place for the faint hearted.
After editing and polishing my short story I was priviledged and delighted that Patience Tomlinson agreed to narrate my book. Patience has narrated 200 audio books, including Charles Dickens and PD James. She featured on woman’s hour narrating The Letter’s of Queen Victoria. BBC Radio 4 and countless broadcasts of plays and short stories.
https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/To-Dance-with-a-Devil-Audiobook/B08WB291M
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55314406-to-dance-with-a-devil
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dance-Devil-Fools-Journey/dp/B08FP1SVKF
Julie Modla
The human experience. 