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Girls of Pearl Harbor is #134 in the never-ending series called INSIDE THE EMOTION OF FICTION where
the Chris Rice Cooper Blog (CRC)
focuses on one specific excerpt from a fiction genre and how that fiction
writer wrote that specific excerpt. All INSIDE THE EMOTION OF FICTION links are at the end of this piece.
Name of fiction work?
And were there other names you considered that you would like to share with us?
The Girls of Pearl Harbor. Often, my
working title isn’t what my publishing team decide to use, but in this case it
was!
What is the date you
began writing this piece of fiction and the date when you completely finished
the piece of fiction?
I honestly don’t remember when exactly I started it, as my books
are published between 6-12 months after I finish writing them so it was a
little while ago. Usually they take me around 4 months to write, plus an extra
month of solid research.
Where did you do most of
your writing for this fiction work? And
please describe in detail. And can you
please include a photo?
I write full time at home, so always in the same place. I move
between my office/kitchen table/sofa/bed to be honest, depending on what stage
of the novel I’m at. Early on I like to have my research and Pinterest board on
my big desktop screen at my desk, while I write on my laptop, and then later
when I’m full immersed in the story I often move around the house to sit in the
sun.
What were your writing
habits while writing this work- did you drink something as you wrote, listen to
music, write in pen and paper, directly on laptop; specific time of day?
I always write on my laptop, then move to my desktop computer for
editing once the book is finished. I also do all my edits/revisions from my
editor on my desktop. I always need to eat chocolate by mid-afternoon to keep
going when I’m writing, and I always sip black tea or a latte if I’ve had time
to go to a coffee shop! And water, I drink a lot of water when I’m writing too.
Sometimes I have a playlist going of songs I like, but more often it’s either
silence or I play thunderstorm/rain tracks via an app on my phone as white
noise.
Please include just one
excerpt and include page numbers as reference.
This one excerpt can be as short or as long as you prefer.
Oh, this is an easy one! Actually there are two, but I don’t want
to give away the other one as it happens later in the book. The hardest one to
write emotionally was the one scene that I had fully formed in my head before I
started writing. I use part of it as a ‘flash forward’ type prologue at the
start of the book, but the reader gets the fully developed scene in a later
chapter.
‘No!’ Grace’s scream cut through the air,
echoing sharply against the drone of aircraft overhead.
‘Grace, stop!’ April called, her hand slipping
from Grace’s wrist.
‘Grace!’
The planes were deafening, the roar so low and
loud that when Grace looked up, she could see the pilot’s face, could see his
smile before he unleashed a torrent of bullets raining down around them. They
were under attack!
‘Grace!’ April called again.
But Grace ignored her, her eyes locked on Poppy,
so close but so far away, bending down toward a cowering puppy. ‘Run!’ she
screamed to her friend. ‘Poppy, run!’
Poppy stood still, her eyes filled with horror
as she looked up at Grace, her mouth open as if she were about to call back.
Grace started to sprint, desperate to get to
Poppy, to do something, anything, to save her. What was happening? Who
was shooting at them? Why wouldn’t Poppy move?
Seconds felt like days as Poppy finally started
to run, but then strong arms circled Grace from behind as her scream caught in
her throat, holding her back, forcing her to stop.
‘Let me go!’ Grace yelled, gasping as people
started to fall across the field, as the relentless drone continued, ammunition
raining from the sky like a ferocious storm lashing the land. ‘We need to get
to her!’
‘No.’ The word was whispered, but it was still a
command. Teddy had hold of her, Teddy was dragging her back, and no matter how
much she clawed at him or struggled, he wasn’t letting her go.
Grace could only watch in horror, screaming out
to Poppy as one thought echoed over and over through her mind. Please let
Poppy
live.
live.
Why is this excerpt so
emotional for you as a writer to write?
And can you describe your own emotional experience of writing this
specific excerpt?
I felt very teary/emotional writing it, because it was an
accurate historical depiction, which made it very confrontational. I find that
with a lot of my historical fiction.
Were there any deletions
from this excerpt that you can share with us? And can you please include a
photo of your marked up rough drafts of this excerpt.
I unfortunately don’t have a marked up rough draft, as I work on
Word and just keep changing the draft as my edits come through from my editor
in track and change.
I have four other historical women’s fiction novels – The
Spitfire Girls, Hearts of Resistance, Wives of War and Voyage of the Heart, as
well as a long backlist of romance/contemporary women’s fiction novels!
Soraya M. Lane graduated with a law
degree before realising that law wasn't the career for her and that her future
was in writing. She is the author of historical and contemporary women's
fiction, and her most recent historical novel, Voyage of the Heart, was an
Amazon bestseller.
Soraya lives on a small farm in her native New Zealand with her husband, their two young sons and a collection of four-legged friends. When she's not writing, she loves to be outside playing make-believe with her children or snuggled up inside reading. (Soraya with her family in August of 2019)
Soraya lives on a small farm in her native New Zealand with her husband, their two young sons and a collection of four-legged friends. When she's not writing, she loves to be outside playing make-believe with her children or snuggled up inside reading. (Soraya with her family in August of 2019)
www.facebook.com/SorayaLaneAuthor
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