I write to keep me sane. I write so that my words may outlive my life. I write to find redemption
Monday, August 28, 2006
For Other Romance Writers
Avon is starting a online forum that will create a e-book one chapter at a time. By participating you could win prizes and have the chance to have your work viewed by publishers.
Right now there is voting going on to see if the book will be in the genre of
Suspense Contemporary Medieval Paranormal or Victorian
I signed up but think I will only take part if the genre is suspense or contemporary. I have no idea how to write the other three. But the whole idea sounds interesting and a free version of this-
I'm in the dark again about where to go next in my latest WIP. I hate when I hit walls like this. I write in a linear fashion. Only once have I gone against that method ( it did work but felt extremely odd to me).
Anyway, I wrote Eric into a boring corner in the story. I think the part I am writing now needs to be told to set up the rest of the tale. Yet something is off with what I have written. I have to fix it before I can concentrate on moving forward. This WIP has me alternating between feeling thrilled because I think it is unique and will be a great showcase for my voice and feeling extreme frustrated because it is unlike anything I have written before.
But I am not giving up on Eric yet. If it takes me and him in a wrestling match to get him to tell him my story then so be it. I want to get this one out on paper.
Andre, the main character from another story, is still with me. Right now he is playing mute but I feel like one day I will find a way to tell his story.
So is your writing going well this week or not so much?
I just finished reading two books. Ever After and, the sequel to it, Neva Hafta by Edwardo Jackson. Putting aside the things I liked or didn't about the books I did notice the author broke some of the Rules I try so hard to follow. For example, he had the main character growl a kiss at his date. And he used everything but said or asked on most of his dialouge tags.
For him it worked. For me I can't afford to do those kinds of things. So I am off to try and write not just as well as published writers but better. The idea that it takes being that good to succeed frustrates me but I am willing to give it my all to try and get to that point.
Off to write..........
Song Lyrics of the Day
So I'll stand with arms high and heart abandoned In awe of the One who gave it all
There is a theory that goes What You Speak You Make Your Reality. I think this can be true. Because if you say, " I am a loser. I'll never succeed." Then other people see you as what you have told the world you are. When it comes to my writing, in the past, I had to overcome my own self doubts. I had this pesky self defeating voice in my head yelling " You are dreaming if you actually think you will ever publish anything! What a waste of time. Give up now while you still have time to do something else." and the worse thing it ever said was "People will laugh at you." Thankfully, I have mostly silenced that internal critic. I consider that one more step I had to take on this writing journey. I had to believe it was possible to become a published writer. Now I am taking a step in faith and saying, "My novel will one day be in bookstores. I will be proud of my published story. I will never stop writing." If I can commit one hundred percent to those statements I don't think anything can stop me from seeing that become my reality. But I can not whisper my intention. I must speak it loud. I must fight my own doubts and anyone in the world who tries to discourage me. I must scream for this dream. This is a fight to the death and I intend to win.
Song Lyrics of the Day Digging deep, I feel my conscience burn.
The project I am most excited about right now is my story about Eric Moore, a man who goes to a summer writing workshop. I wanted so desperately to write Andre's story, still do, or Aged Out, about foster kids. Those stories have a completely different vibe than Eric Moore's tale though. They are serious where his is lighter, his struggle not nearly as life and death.
Right now I am engrossed in his journey so that is where all my attention goes. He is a character that starts the novel as a unpublished author looking for the secret to how to write a best sellar. I hope I can show him discovering, through the class he takes, that no one can give you 1, 2, 3 or A, B, C how-to steps to success in publishing. He starts out wanting to mimic the style of his favorite authors and not writing the story of his heart. As Eric grows as a writer in the story , I hope I can grow as a writer right along with him.
Song Lyrics of the Day I got a hole in me now
I got a scar i can talk about
She keeps a picture of me in her apartment in the city
Where Route 30 meets 41, a few miles down the road, collide into where I am from- a bedroom town too confined to hold an old soul with new age skin like mine.
Slip back in time, I longed to burst the seal and be revealed somewhere else, someone else. But in this time I am content to be the broken mold, only-I-truly-know self that I have always been.
And maybe when now fades to then
I’ll finally run far into the night,
down the middle of a two lane highway that leads right out of this claustrophobic place,
