The Trials and Tribulations of Writing CASTLE OF THE WOLF
Many people told me that the book after the debut novel was the most difficult to write. And indeed, I
spent an indecent amount of time agonizing, worrying and second-guessing myself. As a result my heroine got stuck on
board of a steamship on the Rhine for months on end, the Castle of Wolfenbach (the main setting of the novel)
was nearly flattened by a meteor (while all my characters would have been INSIDE the castle), and I harboured devious
thoughts of having my protagonists abducted by aliens (Monty Python, anybody?). In short, CASTLE OF THE WOLF became known
as "the dratted WIP" and I was convinced my powers of storytelling were worse than those of a dinosaur. In August and
September 2005, while I was writing the bulk of the novel (250 pages), things went from bad to worse. This found expression
in various panicky, whiny, but (for everybody else) no doubt amusing entries on my blog. And here they are: the collected
trials and tribulations of writing CASTLE OF THE WOLF. Read them and weep. :)
