Let me tell you why I wrote a Holmesian mystery!Why Holmesian?•I wrote “AN AFFAIR AT
Let me tell you why I wrote a Holmesian mystery!Why Holmesian?•I wrote “AN AFFAIR AT OXBRIDGE”, in its original incarnation, about 5 years ago. At the time there were a few things happening:First, I had just finished working on my dark fantasy novel about a boy kidnapped by two goblins. And to do the goblins I immersed myself in Charles Dickens, so I was reading Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, A tale of two cities, some Oscar Wilde, too, but he didn’t work as well for the goblins. So I had just written the goblins. •The goblins were dark, cruel, fun to write, exhausting. I lived with the goblins daily and nightly for 4 months. When the story was done I felt, I don’t know … Relieved, but wanting to do it again. To relax I started watching the 1984 TV series, Sherlock Holmes, with Jeremy Brett, and I loved it! And then I started reading Doyle’s stories.•I have to admit I have a particular weakness for the English language in the Victorian era. And the reason is because it’s different from how we speak today. There’s a certain cadence to it, sentences are long and meandering, by the time you get to the end you forget what the sentence began with, but what I like most is that whatever people were saying was not said in a straightforward way. Like today, let’s say you want to call someone an asshole, you just go ahead and say: You’re an asshole. Simple! But in Victorian English, you’d say something more like this, roughly: I do not believe I will be extending my attentions upon you, for your general countenance and way of thinking have not prevailed upon me favorably. •So the language was a big draw for me. It doesn’t come exactly naturally, writing in Victorian English, but I liked working on it, thinking a little differently. •And another reason I chose to go Holmesian is because I like the structure of Doyle’s stories. The story opens in Sherlock Holmes’s living room on Baker St., then the client arrives, case is presented, Sherlock goes out, and then comes back to his living room to conclude. Basically. If you have the format, the story, more or less, writes itself. •And here’s me in my office.#indieauthorsofinstagram #selfpublishedauthor https://www.instagram.com/p/B8R39wZnk6n/?igshid=1cvvo9uva8xeh -- source link
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