Comments on: HOW I WRITE – Part IIIA – Example https://dianagabaldon.com/2008/03/how-i-write-part-iiia-example/ Author of the Outlander Series Mon, 30 Mar 2026 14:45:02 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.40 By: Trace https://dianagabaldon.com/2008/03/how-i-write-part-iiia-example/comment-page-2/#comment-4168 Mon, 21 Dec 2009 17:37:47 +0000 http://www.dianagabaldon.com/wordpress/2008/03/how-i-write-part-iiia-example/#comment-4168 Thanks for sharing this. It's easy to think that no one else has days like this. To see your day spelled out so completely, knowing what you've been able to accomplish…well it's very encouraging and I appreciate it:-)

Tracy

BookCloak Blog

]]> By: Marianne https://dianagabaldon.com/2008/03/how-i-write-part-iiia-example/comment-page-2/#comment-1457 Thu, 10 Apr 2008 18:48:00 +0000 http://www.dianagabaldon.com/wordpress/2008/03/how-i-write-part-iiia-example/#comment-1457 I am so excited to see this blog. I am a diehard Diana Gabaldon fan. On my slow days at work, I spend time keeping up with a couple of DG discussion groups. Now, I can subsidize them with this blog.

BTW, I would have sworn you were just reporting on historical figures; your characters are so real to me.

I look fowrad to hearing more about your process and whatever is happening in the life of your characters as they are developed.

]]> By: Rashi https://dianagabaldon.com/2008/03/how-i-write-part-iiia-example/comment-page-2/#comment-1456 Wed, 09 Apr 2008 01:37:00 +0000 http://www.dianagabaldon.com/wordpress/2008/03/how-i-write-part-iiia-example/#comment-1456 you are awesome! :D… feels good to know its possible to live through such days and still be sane
BTW…. i had something I thought the scientist in you might like… we were shown this in a Molecular biology lecture this semester.
the video (seen on high, whatever high is) is reallly nice… makes me feel sophisticated to know all that stuff going on :)
http://www.studiodaily.com/main/technique/tprojects/6850.html

]]> By: Laura https://dianagabaldon.com/2008/03/how-i-write-part-iiia-example/comment-page-2/#comment-1455 Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:12:00 +0000 http://www.dianagabaldon.com/wordpress/2008/03/how-i-write-part-iiia-example/#comment-1455 I’m sorry, this is completely off-topic (mostly, anyways) but I had to share.

This week is Scotland week! It will be celebrated in major cities like Toronto, New York, Boston, Chicago, Seattle and more (I’m not sure how far it extends in North America).

I’m going to go fish out my Newfoundland Tartan and make some bannock to celebrate!

]]> By: Sarah https://dianagabaldon.com/2008/03/how-i-write-part-iiia-example/comment-page-2/#comment-1454 Tue, 01 Apr 2008 16:17:00 +0000 http://www.dianagabaldon.com/wordpress/2008/03/how-i-write-part-iiia-example/#comment-1454 Dear mstold,

I don’t know if she knew about Rose Hall before “Dragonfly in Amber” or “Voyager” or if she knows it, but know I understand what you meant. [s]I thought you were only talking about “La dame blanche” and was a bit confused why you asked if she knew it before Voyager and not before Dragonfly in Amber .

]]> By: mstoldt https://dianagabaldon.com/2008/03/how-i-write-part-iiia-example/comment-page-2/#comment-1453 Tue, 01 Apr 2008 16:11:00 +0000 http://www.dianagabaldon.com/wordpress/2008/03/how-i-write-part-iiia-example/#comment-1453 Well, Sarah, I was connecting the two separate ideas, the White Witch and Rose Hall, both which appear in Voyager. But you’re right, maybe she knew about it before.

]]> By: Sarah https://dianagabaldon.com/2008/03/how-i-write-part-iiia-example/comment-page-2/#comment-1452 Tue, 01 Apr 2008 12:02:00 +0000 http://www.dianagabaldon.com/wordpress/2008/03/how-i-write-part-iiia-example/#comment-1452 Dear mstold,

Why “VOYAGER”? “La dame blanche” (The white which) appears also in “DRAGONFLY IN AMBER”.

]]> By: mstoldt https://dianagabaldon.com/2008/03/how-i-write-part-iiia-example/comment-page-2/#comment-1451 Tue, 01 Apr 2008 01:27:00 +0000 http://www.dianagabaldon.com/wordpress/2008/03/how-i-write-part-iiia-example/#comment-1451 This is a little off topic, but I’m dying of curiosity. I was channel surfing the other day and paused on “Scariest Places on Earth” because I heard the term “the White Witch.” Intrigued, I learned that Rose Hall in Jamaica is haunted by this woman, who can get very very angry and is apparently very Evil. I missed a lot of the back story and only caught the tail end of it, but now I need to know: did you know of this ghost story before you wrote Voyager?

]]> By: Jewell https://dianagabaldon.com/2008/03/how-i-write-part-iiia-example/comment-page-2/#comment-1448 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:22:00 +0000 http://www.dianagabaldon.com/wordpress/2008/03/how-i-write-part-iiia-example/#comment-1448 Dear Diana,

Thank you for the “throwing the basket chair down the stairs” comment. That is part of it – is it not? Balancing Lives 1 & 2!!! I always enjoy your honesty!

Jewell

]]> By: Vicki https://dianagabaldon.com/2008/03/how-i-write-part-iiia-example/comment-page-2/#comment-1447 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 12:51:00 +0000 http://www.dianagabaldon.com/wordpress/2008/03/how-i-write-part-iiia-example/#comment-1447 Diana,
I’m tired after that one! ; ) At least I just have 2 to chase after and run around to places, well 3 if you count the hubby! But I can relate. This weekend I wrote some, but also spent a lot of time knocking down plaster in our bedroom. We decided to take the room down to the studs and do it right. House was built in the 1920′s. But, it did give me time to decide what to do about the unexpected turn of events in my story. I pulled down some ceiling tiles, then when the hubby took the older son to the driving range, I finished then sat down at the computer to write. The younger son went upstairs to play X-box. I am still tying to decide the fate of the slave who was beaten with a chair leg…and what to do about the overseer who almost beat him to death. The slave is the master joiner and the overseer is a bad guy…. like most. My main character doesn’t like slavery, but at this point doesn’t know how to change that… he is only 19 and his older brother is off to war. I am sure it will come to me. We also went to buy a new bed yesterday afternoon, ate stopped at the mall and Menards to buy more stuff for remodel. I have a student who requested a recommendation for a scholorship that I have to finish… today! It is due tomorrow… nothing like him asking me over a busy weekend. Oh, gotta go set up for labs today too.
Guess I better get on it!

Take care!
Vicki

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