Hello writers, here I am again.
This and past week I've been extremely busy writing a short story which I intend to enter into the annual Writer's Digest short story competition. Since my story is set in the Caribbean and it's about pirates (watch out, Jack Sparrow!), I've been doing a little research about pirates in general. My heroine is Rosa Marie, an only daughter of a rich French plantation owner in New Orleans. Rosa Marie is very sick and tired of her stifling life at her father's house and longs for freedom, love and adventure. When she turns 18, she gets betrothed to a French nobleman whom she does not want to marry. As she's crossing the Caribbean in a ship bound for France, the ships gets taken by pirates, and Rosa Marie (you probably guessed it by now), becomes one of them. I am still in the process of figuring out the story and completely fleshing out the characters, so all this is preliminary. I'm not quite sure whether this story wants to be a romance or historical fiction, but I guess I'll leave it up to Rosa Marie to decide. To get a scoop on pirates and their murdering ways, I've been taking a pirate class. Cindy Vallar, the teacher, is a retired librarian and a expert on pirates. Check her out on www.cindyvallar.com. Quite a good class, conducted through email, definitely worth checking out. Until next time!