I am on my second and third novel now.
The first one was an experiment. I’m in love with the story,
with the characters. I know them well. The pacing and building is off, though.
Second novel is better. Spent five years working on it. I’m
in love with the story, with the characters. I know them well. The pacing is
better. The blueprint is a tad short of perfect. Tried for a few months to get the
manuscript published. No bites. Decided to shelf it for one year and went on to
novel number three with some more knowledge and a better understanding of story
building.
One hundred pages into novel number three, I got stuck. So I
went back to BLOW FORWARD, novel number two and spent six more months on
perfecting it. Tell you…I think it’s going to be a winner.
Writing is challenging. Thank goodness I love the whole journey.
I love to take sentences rearrange them, then take paragraph and reorder them
as well. Cleaning and moving furniture around. See what makes sense. It doesn’t
get better than that.
I have been writing daily for seven years. I know…a drop in
the bucket. A couple of my friends have
been at it for twenty years.
For me, writing is the easy part.
The difficult part is taking my writing career to the next
level. And that means having to extend myself beyond my comfort level. I’m
willing to do that. But that’s another step in the growing process: learning
the business, learning how to write queries, synopsis, go to conferences and
pitch.
I could do without all that, if you ask me. I could just be
happy in front of my computer all by myself.
No! On second thought, I’m lying. I’m driven. I AM a hard worker and I would like
to reap some reward for my efforts.
