I’m busy editing my next novel “Loving Judah” which is something I wrote many, many years ago. This means that some of the technology is out of date… the pace of change in the cyber-world is impossible for me to keep up with, especially as I wrote my novels while I was working and it took a long time to complete them. The dilemma of when to set my stories is for another post, however!
“Judah” starts off set in Yorkshire where Aislin McManus lives with her husband Peter.
My story is written from Aislin’s point of view, no-one else shares the narrative with her; although it is told in the third person the story develops through her eyes. I remember writing it at a time when my children were young and I would walk them to school every day, walk home, spend the morning writing, the afternoon on housework and cooking and then walk the mile or so to collect them. That walking time was so useful, not that I’m comparing myself to Dickens (LOL as my daughter would say) but he too marched around working out his stories as he walked the streets.
Walking to and from school in all weather, all the Lancashire weather, I lived Aislin’s story. I thought every thought, experienced every emotion, suffered all her heart-ache… I knew her almost as well as I knew myself and some of her stories about her wild years with Sandi are my stories.
Reading and editing “Loving Judah” now, I am aware that as a writer I am too close to her; it is still Aislin’s story but I want it to be Lois telling it!
Lois Elsden 
Alone time like walking is wonderful for nurturing a story. Good luck with the editing.
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