My good friend Natasha Knight tagged me in this blog hop! She is awesome and I do everything she tells me to do :)
What am I working on now?
What am I working on now?
Right
now I am working on finishing up a Historical Spanking Romance
called Emmaline's
Groom.
I realized that I started writing it last May. Hey, things
happen, I got caught up in other stuff. I am glad I am almost
finished and should have it out before the year mark of when I
started it!
It's
about a daughter of an English Marquess who falls in love with one of
the servants at her manor. There is love, sex, spankings, a failed
kidnapping plot, a shoot out- it's got a little bit of everything.
How does my work differ from others of its genre?
I
don't know how my work really differs. I think every author has their
own unique way of telling a story. I like to interweave some humor
into my writing, even if it is not a particularly comedic book. There
are other authors that also do this and I always appreciate it when I
read it. I think humor can be found in everyday life, so it only
makes sense to me that my characters would end up in humorous
situations.
Why do I write what I do?
I
started writing because I was bored. No, really. We had a period of a
few months where we didn't have any cable or internet in our house. I
got bored of reading and tired of buying books that I thought were
'just okay'. I sat down and wrote a book I would like to read.
I
write spanking romance because that is what's featured in my
fantasies. Even if I read a book that has no sex or spankings in it I
will re-imagine it and think up scenes with spanking that would fit
into it. I do this with movies and TV shows as well, nothing is safe!
What
is my writing process?
At
first I was thinking I don't have a writing process. I can't outline.
Well, I can physically write an outline, but I never
follow it.
From
start to finish, this is what it looks like. I think up a scenario,
some fantasy I am working out in my head. Then I figure out
characters. Their backgrounds. How they meet, what they want from
each other.
Sometimes
I bounce ideas off my husband. Sometimes I bounce them off other
author friends. But I always think it through completely before I
even start writing. Once I finally sit down to write the characters
are just dying to get out there and do something. Which is why the
outline never works, they have their own agenda!
I
have to write beginning to end. I can't write scenes or write the end
before the middle. I might have an idea of a later scene, but I have
to write everything leading up to it first.
I
almost never know how my book is going to end, until I get towards
the ending.
As
for the actual physical writing. I get most of that done in the
mornings before my full time job. On my days off I try to devote a
couple of hours to writing. If I am writing at night it means I
really needed to get something down on the page, but most times when
I read it in the morning I end up changing it.
I
used to beat myself up over word counts and productivity and worrying
that other's were cranking out books faster than I could type. But I
think I have come to a place where if I can just get out what is in
my head, let the creative juices flow, and have a good time doing
what I am doing- then life is pretty sweet.
Thanks
for stopping by to check out my thoroughly awesome writing process!
I
have tagged the wickedly funny Claire Collinsgrove. She will be
posting about her writing process next Monday, March 3rd.
Claire
is the author of The
Best of 1950's Wife
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And now you can have her best columns for ready read for the reasonable price of $2.99, including such pearls of wisdom as "Spanking and Soap Paste for the Wife Who Won't 'Swallow'," "Usefulness of 'Bulls-Eye Spanking Panties' in Wife Training," "Are Hippie Husbands Acceptable" and "Silly Wife Spanked for Operation Wall Street Stunt."
Don't delay: Get your copy today! You don't have to live in the 1950s to be a 1950s Wife.
If
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