Ask the Author: C.P. Giuliani
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C.P. Giuliani
I' m sorry it took me so long to answer... I somehow missed your question entirely until today. I must say, though, that the link to my website seems to work properly: I just tried it, and it brought me to Scribblings as it should. It's true that I haven't posted much there, this last year or so. Busy, busy months - and then one falls out of the habit. I miss Scribblings, though, so I'll try to go back to blogging on a reasonable schedule.
C.P. Giuliani
No, I never met Marion Colthorpe - but I'm very, very grateful to her for Day by Day. I came across her work on the Folgerpedia website while researching my second Tom Walsingham Mystery: such a wealth of information, often just the kind of detail that will make a scene, a location or a character come alive... So I've been gratefully using her work ever since.
C.P. Giuliani
Tea and biscuits - and freewriting.
It doesn't happen all that often, luckily, but when it does... I tend to try to soldier on through sheer stubbornness, and then, when it doesn't work, I wallow in misery for a while. But in the end, I always come back to freewriting.
My favourite source of good prompts is Judy Reeves's A Writer's Book of Days. I sit down with it, a notebook, and a pen, and scribble. Fifteen minutes to begin with, knowing that I can always go further if the whim strikes me. I try to do it every day - and, after a while, the scribblings begin to veer towards the project that got mired in the block...
It doesn't happen all that often, luckily, but when it does... I tend to try to soldier on through sheer stubbornness, and then, when it doesn't work, I wallow in misery for a while. But in the end, I always come back to freewriting.
My favourite source of good prompts is Judy Reeves's A Writer's Book of Days. I sit down with it, a notebook, and a pen, and scribble. Fifteen minutes to begin with, knowing that I can always go further if the whim strikes me. I try to do it every day - and, after a while, the scribblings begin to veer towards the project that got mired in the block...
C.P. Giuliani
Right now I'm in the final stage of Book Two of my Tudor espionage/mystery series, the Tom Walsingham Mysteries.
The book is due by the end of May, and the deadline is looming large, but I'm well into my final draft now - tweaking and polishing, mostly...
The book is due by the end of May, and the deadline is looming large, but I'm well into my final draft now - tweaking and polishing, mostly...
C.P. Giuliani
Besides writing, I work as an editor, a translator and a reviewer - which means that I read a good deal for work. Add to that all the non-fiction that goes into documentation, and some more theatre-related reading...
This doesn't leave me much time for leisure reading, alas...
But every summer I give myself the gift of a Reading Week - a few days when I do nothing but sit in the garden readreadread... Well, it's rarely a full week, but still it's glorious.
During the months that precede the RW, I always make up unrealistically long lists of titles... Here are some for this summer:
- Some Sabatini and some Rosemary Sutcliff, because it just wouldn't be summer without them.
- One of P.F. Chisholm's Carey Mysteries
- Nigel Tranter's The Master of Gray
- William Palmer's Leporello
- Lissa Evans's Their Finest
- S.J. Bennet's The Windsor Knot...
And that's supposing that I manage a book a day, and a whole week.
See what I mean? Unrealistic!
This doesn't leave me much time for leisure reading, alas...
But every summer I give myself the gift of a Reading Week - a few days when I do nothing but sit in the garden readreadread... Well, it's rarely a full week, but still it's glorious.
During the months that precede the RW, I always make up unrealistically long lists of titles... Here are some for this summer:
- Some Sabatini and some Rosemary Sutcliff, because it just wouldn't be summer without them.
- One of P.F. Chisholm's Carey Mysteries
- Nigel Tranter's The Master of Gray
- William Palmer's Leporello
- Lissa Evans's Their Finest
- S.J. Bennet's The Windsor Knot...
And that's supposing that I manage a book a day, and a whole week.
See what I mean? Unrealistic!
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