Scandalous Truths
Four days to go until NaNoWriMo19 starts on Friday, and the plot outline is no further forward. The characters, on the other hand, are shaping up nicely. I’m being super-organised this year and creating mini-biogs so that I don’t end up changing names of the protagonist halfway through, as has happened during previous NaNos …
I always enjoy the research side of the novelling process, as I like to have true stories running through the chapters. I’m sure I read somewhere that this makes a novel more believable, so I’ve been researching scandals in the art world. I’m only at the start of the process (and already in danger of getting side-tracked) but some of the things I’ve been reading about are quite remarkable – as they say in the world of cliché ‘you couldn’t make it up’. But as this is a month for writing fiction, I shall, of course, be making up quite a lot of it. And I shall leave it to you, dear reader, to decide which scandals are fictitious and which are based on real events.