I have a very strange idea walking around the streets of inner London, a very strange crazy idea. I want to write a contemporary history walking guide. One with audio podcast and reading materials in the form of chapters. Similar to lonely planet, tourists can download each chapter for a dollar, and maybe another dollar for the audio. They can plug their earphones into their phones and listen to the audio while they walk around the city and follow in the footsteps of the audio guide. They can press the pause button if they want to spend more time on one attraction.
I wish for something like that for lonely travelers and I am surprised no one has done that? Everything is going electronic now and soon tour guides will not be needed when one can listen to the audio guide at their own one and pace.
I spent hours every night reading about Greek history and trying to figure out the meaning behind some of the monuments and statues I saw, which era they are form and why they are made. But there is not much information no matter how much I read as its too ancient and even tour guides do not really know why, but offer theories to the location of the Atlantis and ancient cities that lie beneath their current city. I wish I had an audio guide while I looked at the attraction so I don’t have to spend too much time reading and figuring things out. Tour guides were too expensive in Greece and rare.
I feel that London is now my favourite city in the world, followed by New York and Paris. I love the artistic and cultural history of the city and it is as if I am walking through a history book exploring little nooks.
I had not slept much for two days as I am so excited for London. I wake up before my alarm and can’t help but read about the city. Admittedly, I am tired of traveling at this point having probably covering about 20 000 miles in less than 8 months. I am on the plane every alternate month and I am starting to miss the stability of having a fixed home. This year I had been to Paris, Sydney, Penang, Hong Kong, Indonesia. The trips mostly are my getaways to finish my novel deadline and I am happy to say that I had finished writing my first complete novel and it will be ready for publication by end October.
I would think that authors below the age of thirty are few, as our young energetic bodies can’t stay still with such intense marathon focus to complete 80 000 words with a single goal of a narrative that makes sense with a start and an end. To combat this fidgety aspect of my personality, and my hyper active nature, I travelled to write. Most of the better parts my novel are written when I travelled. In total, the Red Hourglass was written in these countries over 4 years :
New York: 3000 words
Subway scene, visited twice in 2011 and 2013
Sydney: 5000 words
Romantic scenes
Madrid: 5000 words
Inner monologue of main character
Penang: 5000 words
Rewrites of protagonist love interests
Melbourne: flashes and snippets
Initial beta stage of figuring out if I was writing a thriller or fantasy novel and I settled for a thriller.
Hong Kong: initial research stage for sequel
Of course I won’t take another four years for the sequel but a year at most. I personally feel that the first novel is the hardest as the fundamentals and background has to be solidified before the sequels can be written in the same universe. I am excited to write the sequel soon and I can’t wait.
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AVERRAL writes under pen name Scarlet Risqué. She stars in Scarlet Queen YouTube with over a million views. She holds a degree in business. The RED HOURGLASS is ranked Top 50 Espionage Thriller on Amazon. She is currently writing the sequels to the Hourglass Series. Grab a free copy of her novel now RED HOURGLASS on Amazon |
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