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Today I made up for yesterday and did slightly over today's target - for how long I'll stay in this position I don't know, probably not very long. I have now 'finished' Chapter One and started on Chapter Two. By finished I mean for today, I will probably look over it tomorrow and this is only the first draft, I will do several more drafts once I've completed the whole story.
Yesterday I introduced the character of Jamie to you all - click here to see Jamie's profile - today I'm going to provide you with a little extract. This is the first time the reader meets Jamie.
Extract
Jamie pulled her straight copper
hair into a high ponytail. Looking at her reflection in a window pane, she
tugged the hair band out again. She shook her head and ran her fingers through
her hair to neaten it up again.
“That’s not
right,” Jamie said, taking the hair band back off her wrist. She was about to
attempt a ponytail again but had a sudden change of mind and shoved the band
into her bag. Next she tried sweeping her hair all onto one side but that
didn’t work either.
“Just stop
it,” she said to her reflection. She shook her head again so that her hair fell
back into its natural position. “It’ll be fine.”
Today was
Jamie’s first day at her new job. She’d
flown to England ,
leaving her family back in Canada ,
to take over the role of Detective Inspector at a small police station in the
middle of the British countryside.
“Open the
door,” she instructed herself. She obeyed. “Good, good. Oh…hello.”
Two men stared
at her from the far side of the room. Neither of them spoke as they took in her
appearance.
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