Aug 20, 2015

So I'm commencing with the toe dipping into some fairly chilly waters with a great degree of trepidation here. I've been working on my story for several months, but the start of this story goes back a while. It's an idea I've had kicking around in my head that I never really had the impetus to actually get it out. It was just this niggling...itch...I couldn't scratch, because who has time to write? I'd longingly look at Nanowrimo and think...next year...I'll do it next year when things aren't so busy. Cue a camping weekend with a couple of mates with no TV and no fish biting and I sketched out my story to them, or at least the first book. It may have been the beer talking, but they all said, "You HAVE to do that". That's what started me on this journey, so Damo, Frew and John - thanks guys, you gave me the nudge I needed at just the right time.

I spent the first couple of months after that camping trip with just this aching need to get the story out and managed to put together a plot outline for the first couple of books that raised my heart-rate and excitement to where that tiny spark became a burning coal that if I didn't write it, would drive me completely bonkers. I drove my wife and teenage daughter spare talking through idea's with them. Problem is, I'm not a novelist, just someone who liked to tell stories. I've never written professionally before and I had no idea about what kind of medium best suited the story I wanted to tell, and this story came fully fleshed into my mind as a graphic novel of all things.

So I reached out to my local writing community with a plea for assistance and started a pretty steep learning curve with a bunch of people who are, frankly, awesome nerds. I say that with love guys, truly. Concepts like purple prose, fridging, these were knew to me, and they made it fun to find out all about them.

So I hope you'll enjoy reading Suffrage as much as I have enjoyed writing it.

Julian S A Green