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Today’s topic is: What has been the hardest format to write for you?

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I’ve been very fortunate in my writing life. Much of what I’ve written or am writing has come easily to me. My two steampunk novels are in a genre I love, so fall into seamlessly. As for my work in progress festive murder thriller, well I love Christmas and I love a delicious murder novel, so this one is quite straight forward too in some regards.

But there’s a project I’ve been alluding to a lot of late. And this one certainly fits the bill for this topic. To give a little more context, this piece is a thriller novel. But to make things a little more complicated for myself, the entire thing will be told through text messages. This might not seem so bad.

I’m a big fan of Stephen King, Terry Pratchett and Tolkien. I love their descriptive writing and their world-building. It’s possibly the part of writing that I’ve loved the most – crafting worlds and creating EVERYTHING. But telling a tale only through texts removes that from me. There can be no exposition, no internal monologue, and no world-building. The entire world exists within the communications of the characters and what they share with one another.

It’s a real challenge but I am beyond excited to see where it goes.