'RED JACK'S DAUGHTER' INSIDER NEWS
This was great fun to write, but as the book went on I became unhappier with
it. There was something wrong but I couldn't figure out what it was. Our
heroine had been raised as a boy, and acted like one to please her soldier
father, who'd always wanted a son. She was charming, the hero was grand.
What was my problem?
I figured it out by Chapter Six. I listened to her. She spoke like a
woman. Given her upbringing, it didn't ring true. I went back and took out
all her dialogue and rewrote it as though it were spoken by a young man.
Yes. That worked.
|