Books – Page 3 – Damaris Young

A Fresh Start

I am suffering from post-project depression. I have been consumed by my novel for months, writing at full steam every day. Now that it is finished and I have half-heatedly attempted to edit it I am lacking in enthusiasm. Without the daily process of creating the story I feel a bit lost and bored. IContinue reading “A Fresh Start”

Turn the Page

What makes the reader keep reading after the first page? The first Chapter? What keeps the reader reading when they should go to bed or when their favourite program comes on TV? I throw my poor characters into the middle of a crisis from page one. I hope the reader will stay long enough to find outContinue reading “Turn the Page”

Literary Easter Eggs

I read Stephen King’s ‘Dolores Claiborne’ straight after ‘Gerald’s Game’ purely by coincidence, without realising the connection between them. So it was a surprise to find the ‘tie ins’ between the books, for example when Dolores shared a telepathic connection with Jessie from Gerald’s Game, once during the solar eclipse and later when Jessie isContinue reading “Literary Easter Eggs”