Here they go again…
Thanks for hosting us on your blog, Charles!
Chatting with my characters
My characters often chat with me, usually in that sleepless hour between three and four in the morning, when they worm their way into my consciousness and strike up a conversation. Some of the principal players from my second novel, You’ll Never Walk Alone, are the most insistent. This recent conversation went the way they usually do, starting with a few flattering comments and then… well, you’ll see.
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I’m sitting with Connor and Cynthia in the patch of garden behind Cynthia’s flat. It’s late summer and bees are buzzing lazily around the neglected rosebushes, echoing the hum of the traffic circling Sefton Park.
Connor fills our glasses and places the almost empty bottle on the peeling wrought iron table. He sits back, takes a large mouthful of wine and beams at me. ‘I believe congratulations are in order, once again, Ms Hall.’
Cynthia…
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I think they are right, you should give it some thought!
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Actually, I am… but shush, don’t tell them! 😉
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Mum is the word! 🤐🤭
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😀
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I always like when the characters “chat”. 😀Connor calling Cynthia “old thing” made me think of Tommy and Tuppence. Obviously a British term of endearment… 🥰
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It is, although it’s quite an old-fashioned term but it totally suits Connor’s character and way of speaking. Cynthia hates it though. She’s rather sensitive about her age. Even I don’t know how old she is!
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Lol😂
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Very intriguing. I’ll have to save and read this all later.
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Oh yes, do come and meet Cynthia and Connor. Connor’s had several slim volumes of poetry published!
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I have to screenshot this to remember to include it in my to do. Thank you Chris.
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Busy with your poems… really liking what I’m reading 🙂
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