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Using Foreign Languages in Fiction and A Tour of my Animal Crossing Island | BTS Writing Vlog 022
Hello, Booklovers!
For me, goals are constantly moving and adjusted to my ever-changing needs as a writer. And that’s where I started this behind the scenes writing vlog. Just like all the others, I fell off the wagon, got back on, and went on to achieve a little bit of success. Well, just a little. In this vlog, I also deliberate on how I’m going to show a character choosing to speak French while talking to the police. This decision leads D.I. Anwar Khan to enlist my protagonist, James Lalonde, as a translator. And, I start to worry about how my audience will react to this story decision. If I’m honest, I’m worried that I might get a bit of hate in the reviews in this first-in-series novella.
Or, perhaps, I’m overthinking this a little too much. But only time will tell.
At the end of this writing vlog, I remembered that I almost forgot that it was a public holiday. Luckily, I remembered just in time and spent the day on animal crossing. And, I give you a quick tour of my animal crossing island.
So stay tuned for all of this and much more coming up in this weekly writing vlog.
- My Goal for the week
- Did I write on Monday afternoon?
- Setting a low bar writing goal
- The word count for the Candidate at the end of each writing day
- Setting a new writing goal
- What I achieved on each writing day
- I submitted the first act of the Candidate to my alpha reader on HeyBeta
- Did I write the midpoint scene of The Candidate?
- My writing goal for Thursday
- Thinking is writing
- I’m thinking about using the French language in a fiction novel for the English speaking market
- My concerns about how The Candidate will be received by readers
- Recording episodes of the Authorpreneur Podcast and the Five Minute Writing Coach Podcast
- About the Five Minute Writing Coach Podcast
- My writing goal for Friday
- Letting go of obsessing over word count as a measure of progress
- How I wrote a scene with French dialogue in a fiction novel for the English speaking market
- I almost forgot about a public holiday
- A quick tour around my Animal Crossing Island
With love,
Amelia xx
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A. D. Hay (Amelia)
Amateur Sleuth Mystery Author
Amelia writes amateur sleuth mysteries under the pen name A.D. Hay. She is the author of The Lawn, Suspicion, and Duplicity—the first three stories in the James Lalonde Amateur Sleuth Mystery series. The Candidate is the first book in the Rookie Reporter Mystery series. And she is the author of the stand-alone murder mystery The Locked Room. When not absorbed in a gripping page-turner or writing my James Lalonde series, Amelia loves to travel around Europe, drink tea and rosé, and eat pizza. She is also obsessed with journalism, art history, and is a closet religious thriller fan. She is also the host of The Authorpreneur Podcast and the Mystery Novel Nerd Podcast. Right now, she is writing a cozy mystery short story, which will eventually be the first instalment of a series, the second book in the Rookie Reporter Mystery series and the third James Lalonde novel.
