Thoughts out Loud!!!

For as long as I can remember, I have enjoyed writing. A poem, short story, romance, fantasy or mystery ~ it really doesn’t matter what the genre. For me it is the whole concept of putting the written word down on paper and creating something that wasn’t there before.

I love getting lost in a world that I created myself. It is sharing my imagination with others. It is developing, growing and giving birth to a little piece of myself, bound together in the form of a book. It is a piece of writing that someone could pick up and read, absorb or digest. Maybe it moves them, maybe it doesn’t. That is the risk that all writers take. Are readers going to like it or not? It can be scary.

How would you feel if someone told you that you sucked at what you do? Yet we writers learn that we have good days and bad days. The writing accomplished on the good days has the potential of being great; the writing on bad days can be haunting. Trial and error ~ it’s an exhausting process, no matter what business a person is in. Eventually we get it down from the process and we grow. 

Over the entire course of publishing the first in the series “Immortal Lost”, I have learned a considerable amount of something and nothing at the same time. Yet, I have gained knowledge in both areas of what to do and what not to do (trust your editors!). Yet, even with the ups and downs, everything about the writing experience seems to comfort me in ways that I cannot completely describe.

Although I have attempted to explain my specific writing process, from the development of characters to the storyline, it still eludes me as to how my writings can be misinterpreted or construed other than how I initially foresaw them. But maybe, just maybe, that’s the process. Could it be the reader’s take that I write and build on it? Are they reading what they want to read, envisioning a reality in the written word, bound together in a story written by me? 

Truthfully, people like me want to believe in the fantasy that could be. Is that not why for years romance novelists put only male models on the covers of their books? Hello Fabio!!!! (Let me just say yum yum). It allows the female reader the “fantasy” to step into the shoes of the heroine who graced its pages, thereby becoming a part of the book themselves! She dreams of throwing her arms around the man she desires while being swept away in the romance of it all.

Is there a woman out there who doesn’t dream of romance during some point in her life? Whether she is eighteen or eighty, the love of romance stays with her forever. So it is understandable the marketing department would put a handsome man on the cover. It worked then and probably still does. However, I think Fabio has retired. Can you say Cougar! Wait, does that reference apply to the male gender? Oops! Sorry about that Fabio.

Anyhow, that is all I have for today. Just my thoughts wandering the page, give me some feedback and let me know what you would like to talk about. I am an open book and would love to discuss the book The Immortal Lost. Maybe I will give you a few inside scoops as to when the next book is coming out.  Until next time, read on.