Letter to the reader of Old Time Love series
Dear reader of Old Time Love I wasn’t planning to write this only cause I thought Ceillia covered it all in the end. But it seems even she doesn’t even know why I wrote this series or how it got started. I wrote this series to challenge myself see what else I could do. True I could have kept using Meredith Rosemen but I needed a different character a new one.
A number of years ago I was going to my gma’s house to hang out with her. And on the way there I saw this young girl wrapped up in a hoodie and trying to run across the street to either go down town or somewhere. Her hood fell off and her red hair flew behind her as she ran. I wondered where was she off to in such a hurry. Was it to go some place or to meet someone or simply to get out of the rain? When I got to my gma’s I kept thinking about that girl. A few hours later I was talking to my friend and I don’t know something clicked in my head. Some how in some way that nameless young girl became my character and I created this story for her.
This series was a challenge for me because it was set in 1862 and I had to do a lot of research and stuff like that to get the feel of the story right. And I know I kind of made it a little modern in some ways but I did try to stay to the time line. As the writer for a feisty New Yorker writing for a southern bell such as Freya it was kind of hard to do. The character doesn’t really swear or anything like that. She is a lot kinder and dooting of her father. Plus this was my first time not writing as first person but as the narrator for the series. Plus I had to think of any name I could think of without called Mitchell Myers that wasn’t a swear word. (That was very hard to do.)
But in all writing this series was fun and challenging for me but it was so worth it. This was probably the most awarding series I have written. I loved writing for Freya and her group of characters. I am not sure if I will ever write for her again or not only time will tell. I just hope you all enjoy reading about her as I enjoyed writing her.
Until next time,
Jesse McDonald
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